#ted

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to. ↗

— Robert Caro

#generally #hours #i #i quit #late

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work. ↗

— Robert Caro

#leader #lyndon #lyndon johnson #made #majority

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#biographies #called #find #got #hate

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#i #little #started #week

When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything. ↗

— Eric Carr

#beatles #drums #ever #everything #fell

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#crowd #easy #going #good-humoured #i

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#dictated #expectations #feel #like #once

I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#blood #good #hadn #happened #happening

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#angry #because #become #certain #club

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire. ↗

— David Zucker

#early #humor #i #i think #most