#weren

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? ↗

— Al Boliska

#candlelight #edison #realize #tv #watching

That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions. ↗

— Bert Lahr

#big #career #hit #hollywood #hurt

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#allowed #because #censored #doing #just

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#being #camps #center #even #holocaust

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#charge #gave #greatest #impression #leaders

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#began #experimenting #generational #i #once

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#because #being #cook #cooked #dinner

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#anything #born #even #half #live

I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events. ↗

— Michael Nyman

#being #certain #circumstances #does #events

I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular? ↗

— Michael Nyman

#ask #been #bit #did #film