#y

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#humble #i #long #meek #much

You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly. ↗

— Charlie Dent

#button #maybe #positions #possibly #take

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying. ↗

— Ken Follett

#draft #easiest #every #first #fun

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#aloud #beings #cannot #doctrine #ethical

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult. ↗

— Ken Follett

#characters #difficult #female #female characters #great

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it. ↗

— Henry Fonda

#bette #bette davis #burns #cigarette #close

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era. ↗

— Ken Follett

#american #among #before #communist #communists

Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition. ↗

— Robert M. La Follette

#every #every nation #imperialistic #nation #opposition

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic. ↗

— Bridget Fonda

#afraid #being #close #get #i

We both grew up at a time when homosexuality was not even spoken about. There were certainly no books that could help a young person understand that two people of the same sex could build a happy, productive and loving life together. When we entered our 50th year, another same sex couple told us we were ‘an inspiration’, so we began to feel we had the responsibility to make what we’ve experienced available to others. We also wanted to show people who were not gay that our life was not unlike theirs. We are all pretty much the same, so we deserve equal protection under the Constitution. ↗

— Norman Sunshine

#double-life #love-story #norman-sunshine #equality