#ten

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. ↗

— John le Carre

#away #both #community #his #i

The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#attentive #been #british #city #europe

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency. ↗

— Peter Fenn

#democracy #dialogue #healthy #open #tenet

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#admiration #attention #getting #hopes #i

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#consider #divorce #ended #holly #i

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#certain #come #existence #fiction #into

If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#every #get #level #like #play

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#beautiful #dignified #living #living thing #longevity

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#experience #long #long experience #proverb #sentence

We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent. ↗

— Frances Bean Cobain

#inconsistent #life #moved #much #my life