#the one

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#been #character #had #hold #i

Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man. ↗

— Rip Torn

#aside #dress #ever #go #gonna

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots. ↗

— Scott Turow

#being #books #could #credit #had

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#anything #been #brutal #education #fueled

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#adult #being #buy #candy #i

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#else #entertain #got #one thing #put

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#addicted #addictive #already #cause #easy

The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#finish #going #lifetime #make #newspaper

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#blues #choice #choke #down #garbage

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#either #fairly #force #good #government