#met

Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#bet #everyone #go #hedge #looking

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#old #perhaps #something #think #yet

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want. ↗

— David Mamet

#designed #get #may #mean #people

People only speak to get something. ↗

— David Mamet

#only #people #something #speak

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue. ↗

— David Mamet

#dialogue #just #me #something #wants

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. ↗

— Paul de Man

#metaphors #more #much #tenacious #than

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#cannot #done #effect #experts #irritated

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#always #appear #because #cancer #come

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#i #i feel #i feel like #itself #life