#com

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#alone #balancing #communication #concert #conflicting

The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#always #artist #characteristics #child #complete

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#commercial #operation #stability #want #you

We will persevere, come life or death. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#death #life #persevere #will

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#american #american cinema #art #becoming #cinema

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#because #come #enough #every #existence

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#any #complete #complete freedom #fit #freedom

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#conceptual #different #different elements #elements #generated

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#entire #environment #faulkner #held #i

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#command #consider #extends #grows #i