#om

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it. ↗

— Tony Scott

#doing #few #homework #lot #talk

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#being #being honest #best #found #front

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. ↗

— Rhys Ifans

#art #artisan #artist #became #becomes

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought. ↗

— Scott Ian

#bought #brothers #chemical #dead #ever

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before. ↗

— Janis Ian

#asked #before #crying #finished #given

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read. ↗

— Janis Ian

#avid #been #book #car #even

Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one. ↗

— Scott Ian

#band #ever #gets #horrible #name

I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#always #because #i #kid #preacher

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is. ↗

— Eric Idle

#charge #commune #decide #i #i think

It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#life-and-living #philosophy #vastness #west #western