#the past

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

#dealing #double #eccentric #i #in the past

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#in the past #jethro #living #past #poker

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#dead #department #down #i #in the past

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#background #been #class background #come #downstairs

I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#i #i can #in the past #level #longer

I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world. ↗

— Mario Lemeiux

#along #been #family #first #frustrating

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

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

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

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#in the past #live #nothing #past #you