#th

I don't ever take anything for granted. ↗

— Kate Mara

#ever #granted #i #take

There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them. ↗

— Kate Mara

#feel #i #just #losing #make

I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#am #bothers #everyone #everything #extremely

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth. ↗

— Roger Maris

#babe ruth #ballplayer #break #damn #great

I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! ↗

— Eddie Money

#bud #i #nothing #some #still

If home is where the heart is, Jason has lived in his throat for a long time. ↗

— Jamie Mason

#home-is-where-the-heart-is #home

...and love, as an act, lacks a verb ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#love

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures. ↗

— Manning Marable

#crisis #development #only #political #politics

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them. ↗

— David Maraniss

#actually #after #although #bill #bill clinton

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. ↗

— David Maraniss

#am #arc #beginning #book #carry