#order

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that. ↗

— Hart Crane

#cultural #development #doubt #epic #foundation

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels. ↗

— William Friedkin

#actor #communicate #communication #create #direction

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#need #order #people #real #reassure

Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people. ↗

— Helen Clark

#borders #country #fortunately #gets #land

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it. ↗

— Levon Helm

#listen #live #most #our #play

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#beyond #composition #difficult #difficult things #does

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. ↗

— Thomas Cochrane

#be happy #contemporary #happy #individual #must

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music. ↗

— Neil Finn

#difficult #element #i #i can #into

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#bed #dogs #height #lets #love

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#clever #definitions #homely #i #i wish