Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
Margaret Deland
Recitation: by Male by Female
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
John Keegan
QualityCompromiseYouTroubleWill
I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They're not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains.
John Lydon
LoveDayMountainsFunHave FunYou
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
Ann Brashares
YourselfBabyYouLoseCreateLike
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
Stephen Ambrose
LiveGovernmentYouLivingJuryHow
I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.
Sophia Bush
SchoolDoctorHigh SchoolDoingHigh
As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.
Spike Jonze
PushYouDownHardExcitedConcepts
For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
Sissy Spacek
LifeMeLife Is ACherriesBowl
Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.
Sigourney Weaver
WomanInterestingStereotypesWrite
I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it.
Derek Walcott
PoetryYouPlaceOutFlourishUp
Even the diss tracks was enhancing 'Panda.'
Desiigner
EvenTracksEnhancing
We took over with 'Leverage' three warehouses, and now four with 'The Librarians,' and turned them into proper sound stages with sound doors and all the lights. We now have control of four real, proper-sized sound stages. The problem is they're dark and empty half of the year because there aren't enough productions coming into Oregon.
Dean Devlin
ControlDoorsProblemEnoughYear
I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.
David Weber
HatSpacePeopleWorldThinkDone
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