#ali

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#goes #got #long #long way #personality

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#had #i #look #much #proof

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#film #film-maker #i #only #qualified

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. ↗

— Allen Tate

#sole #technique #validating #values

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#characters #dickens #even #i #i love

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#hard lesson #lesson #reality #right #right things

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#childhood #essential #first #i #inside

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#bird #even #everything #flower #ocean

What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#because #character #crew #fight #guy

When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#brief #could #count #even #important