#miser

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#director #get #good #insecure #job

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. ↗

— James Madison

#aspect #assumes #classes #doubt #favor

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. ↗

— David Mamet

#away #based #days #evenings #family

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#broke #german #hitler #hysterical #into

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#beauty #into #miserable #recycle #things

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ↗

— Don Marquis

#hands #happiness #himself #how #into

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. ↗

— Philip Massinger

#doubt #fall #lost #miseries #must

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#cruel #folly #man #misery #nations

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know? ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#being #doing #find #free #fun

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#common-sense #enact #even #failed #gun