#heir

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#confirm #especially #existences #films #i

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#familiar #familiarize #imagine #mystify #power

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#because #cannot #emotion #even #find

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#although #baffling #both #difficult #dig

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#anybody #anything #anywhere #being #clothes

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

#absolve #actions #ask #consequences #curiosity

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#each #even #explains #fear #flames

I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that. ↗

— John Terry

#captain #choice #england #envisage #first

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#always #course #defend #error #great

I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#basketball #clock #decisions #eventually #ever