#page

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#bible #either #good #good people #out

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#also #care #down #first #head

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#every #get #grab #i #look

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#beginning #better #book #enjoy #enjoy reading

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#does #give #give me #i #me

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#did #i #must #page #paragraph

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#about #adventure #always #america #american

...good fortune is not only good fortune, and over the years things happened in that family that caused some terrible regret. Still, for years it all seemed to me to be blindingly beautiful. And it was. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#beauty

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#cannot #characters #film #get #hours

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner. ↗

— Jude Law

#always #angry #beauty #directors #give