#would

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. ↗

— David Mamet

#conscious #constant #culture #evolves #exists

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing. ↗

— David Mamet

#back #coming #could #day #drawback

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#class consciousness #consciousness #expected #high #high levels

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore. ↗

— William Manchester

#dead #end #evermore #i #like

It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#been #dramatic #get #ground #impossible

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#bobby #how #i #idea #involved

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#active role #always #because #colonial #communism

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#i #kill #knowing #me #morning

I would exchange everything for one child of my own. ↗

— Henrietta Szold

#everything #exchange #i #my own #own