#kin

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. ↗

— Russell Banks

#solitude #spend #time #total #working

Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now? ↗

— Christopher Moore

#christopher-moore #dreams

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#basket #believed #business #carried #eggs

When someone says, “One last thing,” it never is. Unless they die right after speaking. Make sure that they do. 
Check their pulse to be certain. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#certainty #conversation #death #murder #pulse

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#kind #lends #our #study #surroundings

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#did #doing #dream #got #i

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#drinking #sleeping #were #weren

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#any #back #better #come #deliver

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#because #christmas #cole #gotta #holidays

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#i #job #never #obligation #personal