#iona

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy. ↗

— Sean Bean

#bad guy #been #compassionate #decent #english

We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism. ↗

— John R. Allen

#again #al #becoming #down #facilitate

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#blank #definition #other #out #prisons

Looking at my patients and their families, I have a remarkable view not just of lives well lived, but of deep commitment and love. I wouldn't trade that for the world. Sure, sometimes I'm caring for people at their worst, but I'm also blessed to be with them at their best. ↗

— David Dosa

#family

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#even #expensive #film #french #got

The financing of my films has always been international. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#been #films #financing #international

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#done #emotionally #generally #i #out

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#extent #free #free choice #man #rational

The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains. ↗

— Avi Arad

#connected #crazy #effect #emotional #hard

Thirty spokes Share one hub. Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#inspirational #beauty