#heir

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#composers #conceived #conductors #could #direct

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#bad fortune #bows #down #earth #faces

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#another #children #dad #did #fantasize

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#basketball #football #olympic #problems #sports

I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#acting #actor #always #bad #because

If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.' ↗

— Aaron Sanchez

#fantasy #fun #guys #having #host

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#affected #almost #anglo #background #backgrounds

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots. ↗

— Rob Schneider

#else #idiots #make #minds #most

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#ballot #ballot box #beauty #box #bread

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#been #being #enough #homosexuality #homosexuals