#akin

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#issues #moral #moral issues #rather #social

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#comes #feel #find #funny #humor

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#draw #fact #film #i #images

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#chance #create #created #dangerously #going

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#church #commandments #could #especially #growing

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#contest #devolved #freeing #guilty #injured

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong. ↗

— John Bruton

#making #play #role #strong #united

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge. ↗

— Anna Faris

#evening #every #female #great #guess

Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#because #breaking #exposing #good #good thing

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#fast #flowing #i #ideas #intended