#tin

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#art

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards. ↗

— John Baldacci

#development #economic #economic development #embrace #homeland

I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?' ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#back #counting #did #get #getting

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#feel #i #i feel #interest #interests

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#health #infant #infant mortality #lower #mortality

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. ↗

— William Baldwin

#activism #career #hobby #livelihood #passionate

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later. ↗

— Christian Bale

#alone #back #big #eleven #enjoy

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends. ↗

— M. Russell Ballard

#church #correcting #forward #friends #giant

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings. ↗

— Balthus

#best #best way #his #known #let us

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. ↗

— Balthus

#another #cannot #i #know #language