#mm

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#china #civil #civil rights #depression #directions

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#capital punishment #commits #inflicts #murder #punishment

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#irrelevant #language #level #low #programming

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row. ↗

— Pauley Perrette

#commercial #commercials #could #director #doing

Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#attention #channel #community #conservatives #decades

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#communist #different #fashionable #i #kids

That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#action #commit #danger #effects #egg

Acting is very immediate. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#immediate #very

Failure is unfortunately as common as success. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#failure #success #unfortunately

Searching for a mentor is similar to searching for a spouse: you two need to share common values, concerns, experiences, communication style, and, of course, have time to invest into meaningful conversations with one another. ↗

— Anna Stevens

#mentors #mentorship #success-self-improvement #communication