#meth

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#connect #even #excite #getting #handed

In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something. ↗

— Tim Sample

#deeply #get #ingrained #little #maine

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man. ↗

— James Sanborn

#accepted #actually #agency #between #commission

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government. ↗

— Mark Sanford

#black #busy #felt #government #had

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#been #documentary #does #even #get

I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got. ↗

— John Sayles

#comes #fewer #films #find #good

Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important. ↗

— John Sayles

#hate #him #important #like #michael

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? ↗

— Steven Saylor

#act #does #even #grocery #how

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#basis #building #important #important way #in the past

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#else #living #one thing #only #over