#me

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#audience #career #doubt #films #get

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#film #i #i think #like #medium

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#huge #i #mean #movies #upbringing

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#conditioning #feminism #inequality #misogyny #stereotypes

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#clarity #like #line #pitch #put

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#american politics #barack #because #black #cuz

Uh.. you'er Sophie?" Mrianda ventured "That's me" "How old areyou?" Sophie rolled ker wide brown eyes, "Ahunderd and forty-eight" she relied. "I got to live back when women coulden't vote, isn't that awesome? ↗

— Dianne Sylvan

#women-s-rights #humor

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#actually #audience #going #i #member

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#always #community #contact #direct #eye

Petty laws breed great crimes. ↗

— Ouida

#crimes #great #laws #petty