#iv

I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#blockbuster #emotional #exclusive #i #i think

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#anybody #brady #could #draft #get

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#choirs #friends #growth #his #man

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#i #lived #love #rainy #whole

I don't give any gifts to the rich. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#gifts #give #i #rich

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. ↗

— George Saunders

#did #generation #generous #genres #intelligence

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #kind #model #ought #out

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

#court #different #five #intended #law

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#bad news #died #exclusive #fire #footage

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#alive #everyone #expensive #i #lawyers