#pa

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper. ↗

— Nia Long

#bat #film #finished #finished product #great

You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen. ↗

— Nia Long

#depend #directors #divine #happen #like

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#companions #flight #great men #heights #kept

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#another #darkness #distant #each #life

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#disappointed #foolish #fully #leave #passion

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#author #challenge #corners #critics #every

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#exquisite #had #like #music #passed

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket. ↗

— Clifford Longley

#cricket #english #even #henry #john

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#ago #collected #court #down #during

Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender. ↗

— James Longstreet

#army #before #city #confederate #demand