#mm

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. ↗

— John le Carre

#certainly #good #got #haven #i

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders. ↗

— Howie Carr

#descriptions #during #early #enforcement #guy

Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part. ↗

— David Carradine

#before #books #comic #comic books #common

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. ↗

— John le Carre

#good #got #haven #i #immediately

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. ↗

— John le Carre

#away #both #community #his #i

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#generally #hollywood #i #makes #me

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#am #care #character #common #ever

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#difference #immense #man #woman #working

I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#also #charles #college #ever #fairly

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#anyone #common #common denominator #denominator #fear