#prima

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one. ↗

— Dan Rather

#donnas #egomaniac #filled #including #me

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. ↗

— Robert Brustein

#even #function #itself #please #primary

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#civil #civil war #contested #democracy #despite

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#apes #humor #humorous #mammals #primates

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal ↗

— Keith Richards

#life

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

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#bread #creature #lives #man #primarily

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#classics #exposed #focus #great #guys

That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin. ↗

— Edward Lawrie Tatum

#amino #amino acid #another #been #changes