#serious

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#doing #enjoy #gives #i #journalism

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#childhood #children #learning #often #play

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split. ↗

— Mimi Rogers

#celibate #had #his #instrument #maintain

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly. ↗

— Elihu Root

#formerly #held #higher #human #human life

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#affairs #heart #human #human affairs #i

Seriously, I have the best fans ever. ↗

— Britney Spears

#ever #fans #i #seriously

I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#american #american public #around #case #doing

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #blink #connections #dead #doing

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else? ↗

— Mark Stevens

#else #foster #great #museum #seeing

Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#commercial #doll #even #i #kid