#hen

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. ↗

— David Duchovny

#envisioned #i #life #living #make

On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#attacked #been #believe #between #decision

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time. ↗

— Iain Glen

#bursts #down #energy #familiar #giving

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#banjo #been #down #early #far

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#fonda #getting #henry #henry fonda #out

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#accept #auditioned #because #clue #deaf

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#actually #always #andy #andy warhol #angle

Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#days #driving #drunk #entire #entire career

It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records. ↗

— Al Jourgensen

#companies #mold #put #record #record companies

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... ' ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#because #beer #clear #contest #gonna