#ms

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

#carnival #degenerated #drama #films #offer

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

#affirms #after #ambivalence #both #cannot

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#academy awards #awards #been #compromised #count

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#become #circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #had

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #also #beautiful #could #dreams

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#combine #continent #deserts #dream #efforts

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#bad #close #concept #difficult #family

Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#been #clubs #come #concert #like

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#fall #gerry #hanging #i #just

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#fat #just #me #most #point