#someone

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#going #i #i think #like #period

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#begin #find #may #more #new

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#funny #going #impulse #little #ruin

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dead #die #does #mourn #someone

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#events #i #life #life is too short #past

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#generally #i #music #outcome #part

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#also #cuts #knows #likely #likes

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#comes #else #extra #fortune #going

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#back #book #books #expect #get

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#decides #end #hope #means #money