#par

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#director #going #i #oh #parents

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#charm #dogs #film #i #make

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#characters #dickens #even #i #i love

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#conceptual #different #different elements #elements #generated

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem. ↗

— Allen Tate

#apart #knower #knowing #manner #neither

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace. ↗

— Allen Tate

#career #career opportunities #careers #day #encourage

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate. ↗

— Allen Tate

#particular #poem #restate #says

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#easily #energy #enrolled #every #handle

'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#action movies #be happy #better #did #first