#ss

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#ball #ball player #dad #his #i

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it. ↗

— Mark Russell

#candidate #ever #going #humor #just

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business. ↗

— Mark Russell

#bill #business #clinton #good #i

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#cause #leading #leading cause #reality #stress

I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em. ↗

— Rosalind Russell

#flops #i #match #missed

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming? ↗

— Richard Russo

#being #cary #cary grant #charming #effortless

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard. ↗

— Richard Russo

#best #comedy #comic #doing #easy

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #authors #book #changes #faithful

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. ↗

— Richard Russo

#class #i #i do #just #much

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #arc #betray #between #career