#like

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#diction #fashioned #like #out #over

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles. ↗

— Franka Potente

#built #carefully #change #choose #director

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life. ↗

— Franka Potente

#been #being #conscious #consciously #going

I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if Matt Damon's character fell in love with a girl with a real butt?' They were like, 'Yeah sure, sure - here's your personal trainer.' ↗

— Franka Potente

#damon #fell #girl #great #here

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#bank #check #depends #drawn #general

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#gentleman #i #know #like #listed

I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don't know why some places say 'with anchovies.' If you're making a proper Caesar salad, it's going to have anchovies. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

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I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#i #kick #like #rattle #tendency

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#early #ever #fiction #fiction writers #first

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#because #bring #damn #few #few people