#mari

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#band #drummer #primarily #sit #supposed

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#criticize #education #essential #i #i think

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. ↗

— Richard Schickel

#become #characters #concerned #decoration #exercises

I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode. ↗

— Lee Grant

#i #marilyn #maxwell #mode #think

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#god #make #men #primarily #realize

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#because #become #between #doctor #english

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#applicable #been #enormous #exemption #garner

He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#become #certainly #considerable #credentials #elder

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#because #bigger #her #hitch #kill