#all

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of. ↗

— Terry Southern

#director #named #practically #producer #unheard

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.' ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#being #cannot #china #close #contemplation

Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half, I tweeted 60,000 tweets, over 100,000 words. I spent a minimum eight hours a day on it, sometimes 24 hours. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#eight #fit #half #hours #i

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#call #card #companies #credit #credit card

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#book #i #i do #jewish #recall

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#background #culture #deeper #deeper level #get

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#called #create #establishment #feel #going

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#come #consumer #criticism #culture #down

I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#angeles #anywhere #been #berlin #better

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#become #dancing #does #done #football