#weren

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#ideas #industry #publishing #received #weren

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#difficult #feel #feeling #hate #i

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#came #down #good #i #long

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#delightful #even #i #love #people

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do. ↗

— Joe Morton

#choices #could #i #i came #industry

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#cause #symptom #were #weren

Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#charming #doing #doing good #feel #good

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#best #build #built #could #else

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. ↗

— Billy Joel

#bad #days #good #ole #seems

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#growing #growing up #had #home #just