#serious

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#authors #because #being #books #change

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude. ↗

— Joan Collins

#being #british #countries #far #find

Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#how #interesting #life #make #possible

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#alive #anything #bad #being #belong

First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#country #crisis #economic #economic crisis #economic problems

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#am #beg #catch #i #i am

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.' ↗

— Johnny Depp

#airplane #food #kind #like #oxymoron

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families. ↗

— George Gilder

#any #families #first #male #poor

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ↗