#yin

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#come #consider #early #i #i can

What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#basic #continuing #culture #find #get

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#i #i think #itself #life #myself

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#dresser #i #leave #made #many

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#amused #be happy #does #expected #genius

I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#been #cards #deep #excepting #first

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#beautiful #benign #beyond #brilliant #fame

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority. ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#doing #enough #hour #marriage #maybe

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#down #fit #fool #free #freedom

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#get #i #national #place #terrifying