#lis

If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else. ↗

— James Spader

#being #bit #else #family #friends

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen. ↗

— Merrie Spaeth

#laugh #listen #make #minute #people

We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#life #realistic #will #win

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing. ↗

— Al Spalding

#actor #ball #ball player #could #doing

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#because #books #british #eccentric #english

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#business #comes #dollars #done #down

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#close #door #drafts #either #ever

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#i #i think #laugh #listen #people

I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto. ↗

— Scott Speedman

#friends #i #i remember #like #listening

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character. ↗

— Scott Speedman

#challenge #character #dudes #especially #guys