#the past

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#bad #conscience #conviction #deed #deep

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#directors #exactly #going #head #how

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#because #done #haven #history #i

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#because #done #haven #history #i

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#about #admire #always #entirety #films

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#few #in the past #music #past #square

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#bite #could #criminal #curiosity #even

I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past. ↗

— Mario Monti

#been #could #country #i #idea

When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do. ↗

— Demi Moore

#been #betraying #body #eat #feel

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#any #been #better #creative #creative writing