#mos

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff. ↗

— Annette Bening

#adult #almost #because #cared #chance

I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#always #artist #being #ever #every

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#charms #city #city people #country #fuss

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. ↗

— William Bennett

#any #assume #child #does #elementary

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#gets #go #go home #home #laugh

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#antiquated #art #art form #attract #created

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#esteemed #highly #most #music #operas

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. ↗

— Paul Berg

#contributions #curiosity #education #i #important

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships? ↗

— Peter Berg

#being #challenge #could #different #drawn

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#death #father #had #his #know