#pen

When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#ask #country #each #exactly #how

is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution - the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door? ↗

— Edward Humes

#penalty #prison #public-safety #change

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#characters #emotionally #emotions #events #everything

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#dispensing #elvis #his #point #talent

As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools. ↗

— Jack Markell

#creating #expense #focused #government #governor

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more. ↗

— Richard Masur

#commercial #deaf #disabilities #example #first

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#available #doing #even #give #go

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#carpentry #hard #just #literature #material

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#before #big #dance #entire #films

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage. ↗

— John Mayer

#honest #just #open #start #then