#om

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business! ↗

— Roger Corman

#art #art form #artform #business #century

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work. ↗

— Roger Corman

#big #budget #end #film #limited

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#always #bleak #family #family life #father

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work. ↗

— Chris Cornell

#did #ever #expect #go #guitar

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#compete #smaller #successful #you

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't. ↗

— Jack Dempsey

#gets #someone #up #who

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#i #lot #much #provide #research

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#bear #book #first #had #happened

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#wisdom #age

Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill. ↗

— John Cornyn

#access #certain #come #contraception #definition