#hen

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#make #much #new #preceded #something

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#early #exhausted #get #going #hate

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#books #children #day #doing #drawings

If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit. ↗

— Jerry Bruckheimer

#catch #hit #i #knew #make

When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#creatively #crew #date #everything #film

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#actor #african-american #because #board #city

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#activity #arrogant #assertion #century #comprehensible

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid. ↗

— James Buchan

#banking #banks #call #cannot #each

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#cease #country #evil #good #good people

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in. ↗

— James Buchan

#always #charge #democracies #estates #extend