#era

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#each #generation #names #new #new people

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#his #literal #literal sense #mandela #me

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#anything #anyway #character #i #just

I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them. ↗

— David Morse

#because #better #came #camera #certain

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#borrowed #borrowing #car #day #first

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#i #kind #name #poetry #want

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#era #history #integration #new #our

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#different #frankly #how #issues #last

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#admire #connect #general #i #keats

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#bench #did #federal #get #i