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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#classic #comedies #culture #entertain #entertainment

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

#been #constantly #countries #first #indicated

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#conventional #conventional wisdom #did #every #every time

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#child #circumstance #concerned #cooks #cough

I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#comedy #doing #enough #god #hip

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. ↗

— Henry Miller

#communication #except #few #good #great

To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#available #constantly #departments #different #due

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance. ↗

— Yao Ming

#distance #everybody #i #i am #improving

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter. ↗

— Donna Mills

#colors #dark #even #happy #important

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#acceptance #changes #considered #defect #does