#means

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. ↗

— August Strindberg

#because #demands #energy #every #evolution

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#clerk #faculty #favourite #frustration #get

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#excellent #farmers #food #goods #land

I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it. ↗

— Jake Gyllenhaal

#big movie #continue #doing #go #going

I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#does #end #i #justify #lasting

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#actress #artistic #being #big #entitled

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#cannot #democracy #ends #i #i believe

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#big #both #despite #fish #had

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#i #made #me #means #more

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#anything #cgi #desire #different #driven