#thing

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#booker #great #i #i think #immune

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#conscience #correct #done #error #especially

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#culture #literary #missing #our #quite

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#flourish #human #into #locked #moment

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#fades #feeling #larger #lighter #never

I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#i #i love #life #like #love

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#anything #art #exhibitionist #go #honestly

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#freeze #given #just #nothing #number

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#cost #going #just #know #loads

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#creative #creative force #expand #force #friends