#serious

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#dear #deflation #held #indeed #inflation

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#painting #portrait #serious #styles #two

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. ↗

— Marie Dressler

#life #never #ourselves #seriously #take

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#career #catch #catch phrase #come #composing

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#ballet #ballet dancer #dancer #eight #half

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#acting #around #became #came #cared

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#brain #candy #entertain #fiction #god

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#job #person #probably #real #real job

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. ↗

— F. Lee Bailey

#bill #bill of rights #committee #congress #could

Serious journalism need not be solemn. ↗

— Russell Baker

#need #serious #solemn