#de

No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#comfortable #feet #hate #having #hear

Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#ago #been #davis #desire #dynamic

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#changes #characters #day #deep #depict

Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#conference #done #forward #frame #mayors

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#amount #as far as #being #black #change

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. ↗

— John Cheever

#excellent #good #greater #hundred #latitude

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. ↗

— John Cheever

#i #i do #mind #sleeping #understand

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. ↗

— John Cheever

#am #comprehend #consciousness #danger #going

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. ↗

— Robert Collier

#desires #different #different directions #directions #equal