#them

Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them. ↗

— Randy West

#before #being #commercial #during #ear

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. ↗

— Rebecca West

#believe #each #even #everyone #less

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities. ↗

— Timothy West

#authorities #back #buy #council #derelict

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom. ↗

— Samuel West

#always #bedroom #bedtime #both #did

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#devices #engineering #imperfection #iron #machinery

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#adapted #been #consider #custom #fixed

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#again #back #go #grown #hard

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#above #apart #flaws #gets #great

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#brings #depend #good #good art #i

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#i #legs #many #more #myself