#jo

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#adventure #chicago #city #downtown #dream

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#imagination #life #personal-joy #the-world #dreams

Build the roads and the jobs follow. ↗

— Tommy Thompson

#follow #jobs #roads

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#access #actor #actually #another #asking

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#anything #both #character #cinema #different

I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same. ↗

— Guy Fieri

#big #big fan #businesses #changes #crazy

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#adapting #anybody #books #enjoy #i

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#every #get #gypsy #i #i do

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music. ↗

— Tim Finn

#big success #conscious #create #follow #gets

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#acted #asked #certainly #closely #domestic