#thing

I like things that are civilized. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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I've been doing old-people things since I was a child. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#child #doing #i #since #things

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#being #famous #high #just #like

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#life #prepared #ready #them #things

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. ↗

— Plutarch

#direct #easily #harder #man #managed

I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator. ↗

— David Brock

#former #i #living #right-wing

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#guy #i #nothing #who

Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave. ↗

— Charles Dibdin

#drinking #grave #keeps #like #makes

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#away #close #come #doors #dying

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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