#ant

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#case #i #i always #luckily #managed

Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing. ↗

— Albert Finney

#amazing #capable #career #doing #england

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more. ↗

— Linda Fiorentino

#before #done #i #know #means

You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom. ↗

— Linda Fiorentino

#any #bathroom #because #family #fetish

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#answer #art #classical #i #i think

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#abstract thought #creation #deny #development #fantasies

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#another day #calendar #date #day #december

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#answer #been #continue #dubious #hesitant

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#business #business opportunities #constantly #develop #emerge

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job? ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#decisions #how #important #important decisions #job