#elf

I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#ago #bowls #everyone #everything #fan

When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it. ↗

— Margo MacDonald

#am #case #chamber #courteous #debate

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#brother #composer #died #far #gifted

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#clear #form #itself #medium #only

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#asserted #by the time #else #even #feel

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.' ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#because #better #career #comes #control

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#comfort #comfort zone #different #doing #fussy

Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself. ↗

— Macklemore

#completely #endless #expressing #extension #going

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#good #good breeding #good nature #good sense #little

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be. ↗

— Joel Madden

#escape #go #music #somewhere #supposed