#pro

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach. ↗

— Bill Condon

#angle #approach #finding #greatest #greatest hits

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#character #comfortable #everything #feels #hit

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#life #limit #pleasures #protect

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. ↗

— Larry Wall

#compromise #just #necessary #necessity

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#him #knows #prosper #sin #who

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#amount #busy #days #false #get

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world. ↗

— Juan Cole

#big #big change #change #felt #i

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#hard #profession #teaching

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#america #back #communists #court #her

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#facility #government #great #himself #hope