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Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. ↗

#american foreign policy #criticism #foreign #foreign policy #graham

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. ↗

#form #in fact #language #musical #possible

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#country #down #feel #head #i

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#master #once #remains #slave #unspoken

I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#celebrity #i #ideal #realize #spokesperson

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#boy #children #entire #eyes #feel

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#america #bedroom #before #bless #could

I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker. ↗

— Jack Ma

#business #calculate #cards #good #i

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#being #game #i #machines #novel

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#child #heart #magic #mind #parents