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In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#back #century #choice #fiction #follow

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#became #literary #marriage #our #ours

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#children #daughters #our #son #two

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job. ↗

— Sela Ward

#could #did #doing #first #how

For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people. ↗

— Sela Ward

#between #care #caring #exchanges #fed

Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book. ↗

— Sela Ward

#agreed #back #book #chance #every

You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much. ↗

— Sela Ward

#become #close #each #end #everyday

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other. ↗

— Chris Ware

#any #be nice #cartoonist #each #i

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have. ↗

— Chris Ware

#book #impose #life #real #real life

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. ↗

— Chris Ware

#also #during #earlier #false #found