#use

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#different #different thing #directing #feel #filmmaker

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#alice #ball #because #bouncing #cast

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#because #books #find #hope #i

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#go #poets #through #tough #use

It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#because #crowd #down #draw #invite

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#body #causes #everything #find #first

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#censor #code #literature #merely #moral

That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics! ↗

— Alan Vega

#because #big #came #eminem #first

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#before #college #exercises #games #ourselves

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings. ↗

— Rita Dove

#cheerful #comes #curious #double #i