#telling

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#come #how #i #i do #inseparably

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#greatest #greatest thing #had #modern #stories

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#agent #ago #always #back #drive

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#bob #bob hope #burns #caesar #case

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe. ↗

— Deval Patrick

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I don't mind telling a dark side. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#dark side #i #mind #side #telling

I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#resent #residents #states #telling #think

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

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We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story. ↗

— Jessica Lange

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