#iv

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#bring #creative #creative input #director #editing

Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#disrespect #door #mom #open #people

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#about #average #before #between #her

I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#create #experiences #final #had #i

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#life #live #rise #up #your

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous! ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#away #characters #down #dramatic #driving

Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#beyond #borders #change #climate #climate change

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#got #guy #him #i #music

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins. ↗

— Billy Graham

#christ #covered #heart #i #i believe

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#all day #buy #car #clothes #day