#co

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. ↗

— Earl Warren

#does #government #many #others #people

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. ↗

— Tom Waits

#bat #beginnings #form #hand #i

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. ↗

— Tom Waits

#ago #because #bubble #connected #everyone

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#create #earlier #i #literary #new

... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away. ↗

— Daisy Goodwin

#cora #duchess #money #riches #wealth

Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#bodies #budget #casting #covered #enough

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#characteristics #common #developed #economic #even

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#collapse #culture #economy #expected #full

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#beliefs #concern #currently #deep #each

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral! ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#coffin #die #funeral #i #my own