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The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.


Henry Miller


#artist #committed #fulfillment #him #his

Even when you're producing difficult material and you get emotional, after it you feel good; you feel like you've done a good job, or had an emotional release. I've always enjoyed that, but you go home and think, that was a good day's work, and you move on.


Jonny Lee Miller


#always #day #difficult #done #emotional

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.


Jon Meacham


#cynically #disaster #example #favor #for example

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.


Jon Meacham


#becomes #christian #christian life #continuation #day

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.


Margaret Mead


#mediocre #mediocre men #men #possible #want

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.


Leighton Meester


#any #collaboration #i #i always #ideas

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.


Leighton Meester


#been #big #big thing #come #cool

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.


John Mellencamp


#anything #beatles #entertain #even #great

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.


Christopher Meloni


#act #acting #addiction #attention #being

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.


H. L. Mencken


#go #goes #hen #i #laying