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Marya Mannes Quotes

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1904 - September 13, 1990

Topics

Power Society Think Real Reflect

I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.

Fun Doing Ridiculous Want More Tone

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

Love Me I Can Will Talk Act

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

Learning Music Children Romantic Mom

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Man Stupid Deep Literature Head

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

You Just Around Conditioned Times

With more than half of the American workforce without private pension coverage, Social Security provides economic certainty within a system that is fair, equitable, and easy to understand. You work hard, pay into the system, and the federal government makes a promise to pay back your earned benefits when you retire. It's that simple.

Work Simple Government Work Hard You

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

Home Me House I Can Place Office

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

Mother War World Messed Up She Up

Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body is groaning and starting to really shout at you, saying, 'Why? Why? Why? Why are you doing this?'

Saying Doing Easy You Body Why

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

Writing Library Naive Out Academic

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

Time Laughter Relax Energy Laugh

I'm someone who doesn't like to talk about money, prefer to focus about what I do on the pitch.

Timothy F. Cahill

Money Focus Someone Talk Who Like

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