#mm

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. ↗

— Robert Wise

#got #passion #patience #perseverance #three

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' ↗

— James Wolcott

#author #autumn #brought #contender #dan

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#agents #also #characterize #command #did

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#fact #general #i #i think #idea

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#both #content #deal #expressions #functions

I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do. ↗

— Roy Wood

#albums #always #been #bit #commercial

I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind. ↗

— Joanne Woodward

#could #down #happened #i #into

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight. ↗

— Henry Wotton

#conditions #delight #firmness #hat #three

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art. ↗

— Joe Wright

#between #commercial #division #film #i

Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#boxes #cassettes #do you know #guys #had