#ling

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors. ↗

— Stellan Skarsgard

#childhood #constructed #contact #continue #control

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled. ↗

— Red Skelton

#been #brings #chance #chuckle #clown

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. ↗

— John Sladek

#background #call #halt #handling #i

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#attorneys #cia #clear #clearly #given

To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#diligence #i #i tried #into #laws

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. ↗

— Albion W. Small

#analysis #attempt #century #implicit #interest

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#emotional #god #healing #physical #rain

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. ↗

— Patti Smith

#childhood #fanciful #financial #great #had

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty. ↗

— Patti Smith

#artist #aspires #built-in #calling #duty

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant. ↗

— Patti Smith

#insight #intelligent #kind #like #people