#were

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#arts #being #being funny #certainly #citizen

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#haiti #states #supported #united #united states

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#by the people #fact #forgot #got #in fact

Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#before #bottle #bottled #candidates #drink

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#development #had #i #inform #might

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#doing #effortless #guys #high #how

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#event #just #midst #more #much

My parents were both high-school music teachers. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#high-school #music #parents #teachers #were

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#could #dissecting #figure #first #having

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#anybody #buy #first #going #i