#iv

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#artists-life #creativity #decency #discouragement #encouragement

I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to "suck it up" because so many other profound issues are at stake. ↗

— David Mixner

#because #being #democratic #i #i am

It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds. ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#creative-writing #imagination

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work. ↗

— Hayao Miyazaki

#animation #animator #boss #cinema #craftsmen

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#give #good #good advice #more #profit

Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal. ↗

— Mark Mobius

#activism #become #believe #company #going

I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell. ↗

— Moby

#find #i #live #myself #reason

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#humor #inspirational #science #humor

Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod? ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#could #dying #fish #rivers #seems

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line. ↗