#mari

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise. ↗

— Clifford Odets

#alone #always #did #down #first

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#define #improve #internal #jihad #many

The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. ↗

— Michael Oxley

#beyond #corps #cutting-edge #enabled #equipment

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. ↗

— Gary Player

#create #failure #our #primarily #success

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#commandments #good #primarily #rules #seeking

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