#met

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#american troops #conventional #conventional wisdom #getting #holds

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. ↗

— Chuck Close

#i #paint #photograph #really #somebody

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#except #growing #growing up #had #i

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#lines #revealing #sit #something #unusual

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#conspires #helping #something #universe #want

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#called #enough #humble #mystery #something

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable. ↗

— Joel Coen

#characters #condescending #funny #funny thing #i

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere. ↗

— Joel Coen

#anywhere #bit #clear #get #little

When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer. ↗

— Joel Coen

#bit #different #down #employer #expectations