#sit

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#about #believe #big #blessed #clear

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#began #i #immigration #issue #needed

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#business #commercialized #i #never #north

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#consume #force #great #great stuff #nourished

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#cinderella #comedy #fun #i #much

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered. ↗

— James Purefoy

#actor #bothered #corner #friends #get

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#ecology #feels #i #isolated #landed

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#death #dumb #evolution #higher #nothing

A thought is an idea in transit. ↗

— Pythagoras

#thought #transit

No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But it does make for a lot better environment, for sure. ↗

— Mike Quade

#care #does #environment #even #lot