#ect

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. ↗

— Charles Ives

#art #comes #directly #exclusive #experience

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all. ↗

— Michael Patrick Jann

#business #connections #ever #film #film school

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#believe #cast #director #get #go

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea. ↗

— Stephen King

#funny

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self. ↗

— Richard Wilbur

#admired #audience #back #better #congress

I've worked with a lot of great directors. ↗

— Catherine Keener

#great #i #lot #worked

On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life

People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around. ↗

— Davy Jones

#around #being #disorderly #drunk #expect

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it. ↗

— January Jones

#ball #because #believe #drop #everything

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#i #integrity #objection #people #process