#other

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#broken #drink #eat #galling #government

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding? ↗

— James Caan

#am #baseball #bat #crying #dope

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day. ↗

— Scott Caan

#another day #day #end #end of the day #fight

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#benefit #care #disaster #elderly #funding

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#basically #beat #bright #drawn #father

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#independent #lady #me #meant #mother

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. ↗

— John Burroughs

#easily #however #like #men #more

If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#another #broad #certain #certain things #company

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#exposed #film-making #grown #having #helps

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#anything #audience #away #because #becomes