#last

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is. ↗

— Ruth Park

#character #characters #full #genres #lasting

It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart. ↗

— Trey Parker

#big heart #cartoon #center #crap #each

I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth. ↗

— Tatjana Patitz

#get #got #i #into #liked

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. ↗

— Ross Perot

#about #achieve #foot #game #give

But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy, so that there's not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here. ↗

— David Petraeus

#bubble #clearly #even #every #fire

Yeah, my friends call me Mike, Michael or just my last name. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#friends #just #last #me #michael

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#helps #last #minutes #more #rare

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#hate #i #keep #last #making

When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#choice #competing #diamond #fastest #hard

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. ↗

— Max Planck

#because #cannot #last #mystery #nature