#ego

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#ego #enough #focus #i

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along. ↗

— Marc Maron

#agree #along #because #business #businesses

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate. ↗

— Marc Maron

#artists #deal #devil #eventually #meet

We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow. ↗

— Francis Maude

#categories #century #come #different #five

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#egoism #his #insufferable #regard #soul

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#autonomy #defend #fist #i #learned

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#categories #category #did #everybody #exorcist

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#country #decided #dozen #even #i

And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#asleep #brother #called #diego #explosion

And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#band #crew #diego #flying #had