#thing

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#any #awful thing #become #business #chance

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#i #nothing #past #recent #recent past

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#carry #feeling #lonely #nothing #price

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#been #boring #else #even #gets

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attention #does #his #never #nothing

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#because #best #i #i am #i do

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything. ↗

— William Shatner

#anything #convince #i #out

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#alone #another #anything #creates #form

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#am #appointment #cases #decide #get

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#appointment #attention #did #everything #everywhere