#cal

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#decided #feel #get #i #i feel

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it. ↗

— Bill Keller

#elite #media #nice #populist #ring

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#fraud #going #good #imminent #imminent threat

But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#addressing #big #big problem #experience #future

I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school. ↗

— Randal Kleiser

#age #bigger #going #her #high

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before. ↗

— William Adams

#called #divers #done #emperor #five

To Jana's mind everybody seemed happy to see BAbichka and resisted returning her, like a misplaced package sent to the wrong address. It was as if the recipient opened it up, knowing it should be returned, but wondering who long they could legitimately keep it before being changed with theft. ↗

— F.C. Malby

#literary-fiction #change

No, writing has not changed me for the better at all; I have merely used up part of my restless, conscienceless youth. What value to me will these discontented pages be? The book, the vow, are worth no more than one is worth oneself. One can never be sure of saving one's soul by writing. One may go writing on and on with a soul already lost. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#our-ancestors #the-non-existent-knight #change

I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#christmas #european #film #french #i

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me. ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#country #dream #film #impossible #just