#ted

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#been #concentration #greatest #inside #los

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#bet #better #between #calculated #calculated risk

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. ↗

— David Mamet

#difference #entertainment #graph #mass #plotted

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

#carnival #degenerated #drama #films #offer

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer. ↗

— David Mamet

#employer #employers #i #know #out

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #fascinated #i

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. ↗

— David Mamet

#cannot #capacity #cost #demonstrated #destruction

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#class consciousness #consciousness #expected #high #high levels

There have been some hard times, people around me supported me. ↗

— Laure Manaudou

#been #hard #hard times #me #people

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated. ↗

— Joe Manchin

#food #now #reduced #sales #sales tax