#hem

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#duty #first #get #good #happy

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#die #doing #else #i #learned

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#architect #birthday #britney #britney spears #buildings

People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves. ↗

— Ryan Cabrera

#even #know #opinionated #people #talking

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#being #brought #character #characters #could

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights. ↗

— Jules Shear

#equal rights #give #i #kind #rights

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#after #america #because #could #deeper

The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#campaign #candidates #had #most #public

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#amazon #create #destruction #disorganized #economic

I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on. ↗

— James Cameron

#completely #couple #directors #front #had