#bs

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#i #i have learned #learned #life #measured

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. ↗

— George Washington

#discharge #done #duty #employed #executed

About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#absolutely #ago #am #another #bad

I like to think of myself as an observer. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#like #myself #observer #think

It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#amazing #film #film set #how #much

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#feel #feeling #i #jobs #just

Without obsession, life is nothing. ↗

— John Waters

#nothing #obsession #without

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven. ↗

— Emily Watson

#dragon #driven #expect #great #i

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#answer #appropriate #back #been #chief

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#fog #ideas #impenetrable #inflate #inhibit