#thin

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour. ↗

— James Spader

#alternatives #although #being #consider #especially

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted. ↗

— James Spader

#also #become #becoming #been #diluted

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically. ↗

— James Spader

#barack obama #civil #civil war #divisiveness #faces

I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side. ↗

— James Spader

#around #career #doing #film #had

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that. ↗

— James Spader

#closer #enables #i #important #important thing

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#how #i #i think #know #laurels

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#birth control #control #had #her #i

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#batters #business #figure #figures #games

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing. ↗

— Al Spalding

#actor #ball #ball player #could #doing

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter. ↗

— Al Spalding

#american #any #anything #ball game #baseball