#kin

Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it. ↗

— Sally Pearson

#athlete #athletes #being #doing #find

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me. ↗

— Gary Ross

#back #fail #films #haunted #interesting

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#against #attention #critical #detail #devoting

I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#because #handle #humanity #i #i can

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#almost #another #around #back #crashing

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#direct #direction #had #i #like

I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#awareness #come #coming #continue #fullest

I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#everything #guys #i #kind #once

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#cities #environment #everyone #forward #getting

This is the kind of discovery that resonates. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#kind #resonates