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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#improvised #mind #new #single

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#feature #feature film #film #film industry #finland

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#because #cancelled #cards #check #credit

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#because #deal #dreaming #films #finance

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#anything #around #cigarettes #doing #films

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#goal #happen #how #i #kind

I feel more comfortable with my clothes off than on! ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#comfortable #feel #i #i feel #more

I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#am #beautiful #beautiful women #been #before

I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#asked #concert #cure #i #ludicrous

I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#apartment #i #quite #recently #started