#work

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along. ↗

— Marc Maron

#agree #along #because #business #businesses

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

#anyone #behind #few #generations #hard-working

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #commitment #contrast #difference #entire

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#amuses #basis #biggest #caribbean #comes

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' ↗

— Don Marquis

#ask #got #hard #hard work #him

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#apart #entirely #expansive #great #great virtues

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught. ↗

— Karl Malone

#grew #i #taught #things #up

I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity. ↗

— Karl Malone

#craving #day #eat #enough #extra

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#fortune #good #good fortune #great #had

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#automatic #because #believed #commonly #fail