#he

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#irony #needs #our #power #reduce

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#believe #desire #doing #help #i

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from? ↗

— Philip Pullman

#am #bang #before #begin #come

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#i #like #liked #much #really

If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians. ↗

— James Purefoy

#awful #believe #christians #fundamentalist #god

There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them. ↗

— James Purefoy

#hbo #i #i think #invest #networks

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#difficulty #enemy #european #i #imagine

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down. ↗

— David Puttnam

#down #either #leave #leaves #life

And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#adopt #alone #decided #even #growing

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. ↗

— Pythagoras

#continues #destroyer #each #health #kill