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I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#books #capture #characters #hollywood #i

I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#did #discipline #feet #how #i

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away. ↗

— Daniel Taylor

#stories #life

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#instrument #only #prosperity #used #worshipped

It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#another #entertainment #everything #half #like

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#decision #four #i #interested #make

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#just #self #vehicle #worship #worthy

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#description #fact #general #had #identified

Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven. ↗

— Tim Wirth

#leadership #media #politics #education

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#beach #done #fly #helicopter #how