#w

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.' ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#biography #breathe #daughter #engulfed #few

I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#feel #i #i think #important #just

But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it. ↗

— Jay Roach

#back #because #cheap #cut #fell

I didn't even apply. There was no warning. ↗

— Max Roach

#even #i #warning

We live today amid ritualized anithumanisms. Among those intelligent enough to feel despair, some seek salvation in the literary artist. Artists love flattery; and the scam doesn't work without mystifying the process. The weather is unpredictable, but it is not mysterious. Wall Street is unpredictable, but it is not mysterious. Writing is unpredictable, (like street and sky, there are too many variables.) Its mystery vanishes, like a shadow, the moment the light aimed at your characters turns back upon yourself. ↗

— Doran Larson

#writing #art

People want their 15 minutes and are willing to do anything to get it. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#anything #get #minutes #people #their

City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#age

I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me. ↗

— Chuck Robb

#governor #i #made #make #me

I told you to sell it, not give it away. ↗

— Jerome Robbins

#give #i #sell #told #you

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them. ↗

— Jerome Robbins

#either #feel #kids #secret #stuck