#ld

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#after #days #directing #fantasy #i

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#holds #hope #man #pillar #up

I believe that the presidential term should be limited. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#i #i believe #i believe that #limited #presidential

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. ↗

— Pythagoras

#cannot #concern #control #depression #drive

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#avoided #because #bewildered #comedies #feeling

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#anxious #behalf #duty #old #scorn

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd. ↗

— James Purefoy

#airport #grumpy #i #i can #important

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world. ↗

— Al Purdy

#desperately #i #trying #unhappy #world

I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be. ↗

— James Purefoy

#believe #best #company #hbo #how