#cross

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#career #comes #control #desk #engineer

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal. ↗

— Candace Parker

#being #crossover #female #i #major

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier. ↗

— Pink

#always #barrier #because #color #cross

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#bad #came #crossroads #doing #fight

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen! ↗

— Louis Leakey

#biggest #cross #ever #fallen #foot

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#accidents #across #also #characters #film

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#am #because #critical #difficult #get

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#always #because #being #being mad #busy

The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#cross #either #few #go #green

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all. ↗

— Ed Markey

#america #comfort #compromising #could #economy