#were

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

#built #dad #houses #i #know

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

#exactly #like #made #make #music

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#discovering #feel #ideas #just #like

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#classic #comedies #culture #entertain #entertainment

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men. ↗

— James A. Michener

#american men #completely #dozen #group #men

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking. ↗

— Rick Moranis

#anything #assume #audience #best #could

The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes. ↗

— Rita Moreno

#any #classes #days #i #i am

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#been #come #empowered #executives #existing

Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#career #clay #court #four #great