#nic

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.' ↗

— James Blunt

#because #cheating #communication #describe #detrimental

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#action movies #african #african american #american #asian

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way. ↗

— James Blunt

#always #capture #emotion #experiences #hold

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#course #even #give #got #hope

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#history #i #influence #lies #logic

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#bread #doctors #feeling #food #fruits

It is important for Americans to recognize that, despite all of the fancy gimmicks and perceived power of modern medicine, the largest explosion of preventable, chronic diseases ever in the history of mankind has occurred as a direct result of modern medicine and scientific reductionism. Modern medicine is not an antidote for the incredible harms caused by the modern food industry, but it is an effective distraction. ↗

— Charles C. Harpe

#diabetes #healthcare-reform-in-the-us #heart-disease #manufactured-food #metabolic-syndrome

We can arrange better expectations and better circumstances beginning with the fact that we need not be who we are now; we can be better. ↗

— Charles C. Harpe

#diabetes #heart-disease #manufactured-food #naturvore #whole-foods

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#communication #film #good #requires #screenwriter

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#asks #because #career #dream #films