#were

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#being #brought #detail #entertained #familiar

Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge. ↗

— Donna Douglas

#back #change #charge #different #everything

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#favorite #football #four #got #i

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ↗

— Leon Edel

#admired #always #answer #building #busy

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be? ↗

— Charles Edwards

#any #buy #comfortable #except #headline

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#day #every #every day #goal #offer

But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#different #going #happening #into #just

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#bind #choice #continue #countries #like

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons. ↗

— Ruth First

#banned #book #both #communicating #discuss

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent. ↗

— Colin Firth

#good #good work #i #indifferent #knew