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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music. ↗

— Van Morrison

#developing #me #music #musician #platform

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. ↗

— Van Morrison

#attached #beat #essence #folk #folk music

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny. ↗

— Kate Moss

#i #i remember #never #remember #skinny

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

#absolve #actions #ask #consequences #curiosity

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play. ↗

— David Morse

#asked #ball player #basketball #basketball player #could

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#children #conferences #courage #draw #go

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bad #being #boring #exposing #risk

If you have the skill, then you can move as you age. ↗

— Joe Morton

#move #skill #then #you

I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#competitive #had #i #i always #improving

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.' ↗

— Walter Mosley

#anything #apart #ask #back #build