#serious

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside. ↗

— Carly Simon

#any #cause #desire #get #inside

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. ↗

— Paul Simon

#created #everything #get #humor #i

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#children #only #parents #serious #their

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving. ↗

— Peter Singer

#amount #anything #around #believe #children

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies. ↗

— John Singleton

#also #because #crutch #filmmaker #filmmaking

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#i #just #point #seriously #take

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? ↗

— Leonard Slatkin

#could #hollywood #how #new #new yorker

People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#enron #over #people #really #seriously

I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles. ↗

— Mary Steenburgen

#cost #fact #films #i #important

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics. ↗

— George Stephen

#basics #books #came #decided #did