#ok

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#blogs #evanescent #got #just #look

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anything #books #closer #human #human life

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#built #had #happening #i #lost

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#like #little #look #movies #songs

I love all the old classic Disney movies. 'Pinocchio.' There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives, and I'm an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm's fairy tales that I kind of wore out again and again. That's all stuff that lingers with you. ↗

— Gary Ross

#again #animation #anybody #book #classic

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#changed #contribution #day #look #out

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#best #books #competition #difficult #film

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#big picture #close-up #everything #forgetting #look

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anything #best #bullies #completely #devil

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#care #check #clears #i #long