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My mother was a politician in my formative years. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#formative years #mother #politician #years

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#because #bell #camera #concentration #first

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#decorative #distortion #institutional #intense #intimate

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#chaos #come #council #desperate #ever

In every decision we make and in every policy we develop, we are committed to protecting those who cannot protect themselves... the very young and the very old. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#committed #decision #develop #every #make

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#continues #corps #decisions #drought #engineers

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#opinion #possible #reversal #supreme #supreme court

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past. ↗

— Evan Esar

#future #girl #man #past

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#asia #because #bonding #boxed #different

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#aspirations #because #film #had #high