#part

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#admit #always #brutality #element #existence

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#fun #gets #i #making #me

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go? ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#been #give #go #had #i

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#doll #dutch #friend #i #mother

It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors. ↗

— Shannyn Sossamon

#anybody #auditions #become #did #favors

Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department. ↗

— Ann Sothern

#department #good #good looks #hollywood #just

I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#coming #concerning #day #earth #former

I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#congress #countries #country #democratic #either

A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick. ↗

— James Franco

#almost #base #being #clients #delivering

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#basis #because #equipment #even #having