Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.
The goal is to do things that are exciting and respectable.
Surrealism was necessary – essential, even – in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early ’60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.
For me, I just like to play respectable football.
No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
I think it’s important for a woman to always look good and present herself in a respectable manner.
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
‘Soorma’ was made on a budget of 22 core and we don’t expect it to do a 100 crore business, but it has definitely earned respectable numbers. It’s a more performance heavy film with a great story and content.
I mean, we make a 15-minute show that’s incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we’d even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.
My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don’t think that they actually got to know one another deeply.
I’m a college dropout. My parents thought they had three respectable children, and I was the black sheep.
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