#people

I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#because #buy #confidence #directors #i

...one should not only be smart in his head, but one should also be smart in how he relates to other people. ↗

— Daniel Whyte III

#men

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. ↗

— Russell Banks

#care #love #people #want #who

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. ↗

— John Green

#people

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good. ↗

— Stephen King

#jk-rowling #stephenie-meyer #twilight #people

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. ↗

— Mark Twain

#people

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#people #perception #perception

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#philosophy #wrong

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#authorize #government #judge #jury #justice

I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#interview #job #judgement #observation #paris-review