#k

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#around #easy #film #first #first time

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#chinese #chinese culture #commensurate #culture #influence

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#birth #child #defect #easier #experimental

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#becoming #best #between #ceased #city

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created. ↗

— Billy Joel

#created #great #i #inspired #intimate

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked. ↗

— Billy Joel

#club #enough #factory #first #food

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#bigger #bigger picture #bit #concerned #conducting

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around. ↗

— William Scranton

#could #going #good #good idea #had

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are. ↗

— William Scranton

#cetera #commission #epa #had #nuclear

I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be. ↗

— David Johansen

#around #been #block #couple #guy