#tho

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#earn #i #more #poet #than

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#daytime #even #get #i #known

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#although #baffling #both #difficult #dig

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#anybody #anything #anywhere #being #clothes

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. ↗

— John Mortimer

#minute #per #played #revolutions #thousand

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#big #character #exposed #feel #formed

I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die? ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#avoid #before #born #carry #child

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone. ↗

— Frederick Tennyson

#be the first #echoes #first #forever #hath

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bad #being #boring #exposing #risk

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!. ↗

— Johann Most

#maintains #none #revolutionary #say #shame