#loc

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#everyone #go #had #like #listen

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#block #chopping #nothing #past #through

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#consequences #culture #institution #intelligence #located

It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#conscious #eating #environmentally #everything #fair

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking. ↗

— Richard Donner

#couple #did #filmmaking #films #horns

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government. ↗

— Jim Doyle

#am #budget #government #i #i am

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning. ↗

— Patty Duke

#again #bed #clock #depressions #doing

So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.' ↗

— Tim Vine

#calling #depends #i #local #rang

So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#did #everything #got #i #job