#met

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#based #character #conversation #depends #director

When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#decide #i #something #stick #total

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own. ↗

— River Phoenix

#am #because #commodity #does #especially

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#begin #else #i #idea #something

I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#best #cheap #decide #go #got

The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#american people #as far as #being #concerned #energy

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#about #act #apart #does #everyone

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#bad #every #game #get #goes

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #been #born #gay #gay rights

I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#childhood #each #great #guy #had