#ten

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. ↗

— Hope Davis

#barbecue #beaches #car #city #coasts

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs. ↗

— Hope Davis

#experience #general #hard #jobs #network

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#get #joblessness #jobs #most #often

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#appear #congress #disadvantage #distinct #families

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. ↗

— Jefferson Davis

#died #fails #should #theory #tombstone

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music. ↗

— Bjork

#artist #chat #colors #comes #down

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. ↗

— George Byron

#existence #had #i #known #lord

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#even #observes #polite #politeness #rules

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you. ↗

— Pippa Evans

#believed #dennis #had #i #les

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind. ↗

— Judy Davis

#better #dealing #generally #had #i