#ect

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#deepest #dreams #experiences #expression #form

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#aims #create #our #perfect #political

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#chapter #doing #every #everything #first

If you have no good drive in you, your life will not be steered through a good direction. It will miss its destined station. Passion or drive is what moves the vehicle of a fulfilled life. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#destined #destiny #direction #drive #driver

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#connect #developed #fiction #find #follow

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#building #cannot #cinema #european #fence

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#doing #european #had #i #lobbying

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#being #believe #better #between #connections

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#accept #also #england #find #france

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. ↗

— Orson Welles

#mediocre #movie #perfect #refuge