#cal

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that. ↗

— Glenn Ford

#called #difficult #down #experience #film

I mean a song that's specifically for the girls. It's saying you know we talk about them night and day, we're constantly pondering on men and what they've done good and what they've done bad and all these things in our lives. ↗

— Willa Ford

#bad #constantly #day #done #good

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. ↗

— Lee De Forest

#feasible #financially #impossibility #may #technically

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#clerk #doctor #get #hall #heart

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#different #lines #need #plan #scale

I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business. ↗

— George Eliot

#practicality #business

Well, I know a guy, he's from far far away He's a songwriter, he got something to say He says, "People in this city are too busy to hang out This town's so spread out, no one would hear you if you shout" Everyone's got a script to sell and someplace else they want to be There's always a lock that would open if you could just find the key" (It Ain't Easy Being Green) ↗

— Shannon McNally

#hollywood #hopes #illusions #los-angeles #movie-industry

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#calamity #characteristics #courage #faces #grow

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#action hero #doing #hero #i #i see

The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time. ↗

— Judith Ellen Foster

#country #ever #much #needed #needs