"I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever."

-- Michael Learned

#Mother Quotes #Television Quotes #Compassionate Quotes

“Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.”
“No, I donâ€™t have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you donâ€™t know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret.”
“I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.”
“The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.”
“Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.”
“The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.”
“It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
“I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.”

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