#ene

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#benefits #carry #forgive #forgiven #great

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring. ↗

— Tori Amos

#carry #cub #daring #energy #first

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#adapting #alone #banks #bone #book

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. ↗

— Kenneth Anger

#generation #legends #modern #mythology #nobody

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#less #love #scenes #than #war

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#books #commas #demand #footsteps #grammar

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#catastrophe #country #heightened #inevitably #national

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#bands #biggest #concerts #coolest #coolest thing

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#critics #eat #film #generally #i

There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I've always just been able to do it. ↗

— Shiri Appleby

#always #been #broke #crying #down