#ma

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#aiming #always #filmmaking #imaginary #me

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#because #finished #i #interested #invention

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#any #citizens #confess #constitutional #fixed

I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#cuz #four #gets #getting #gotta

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.' ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#been #characters #college #criticize #donate

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#best #cleaned #give #give me #handout

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#autobiographical #bare #chronological #contains #dislike

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#composure #deadline #endowed #enough #fair

Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy. ↗

— Stu Jackson

#begin #calls #could #judgment #make

Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#conduct #expect #friends #good #good guy