#rant

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#cinema #coming #early #everyone #films

The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory. ↗

— Evita Peron

#am #argentinean #before #behalf #bill

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere. ↗

— Katy Perry

#anywhere #church #dad #family #functions

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. ↗

— Tom Petty

#around #falling #fifties #flies #get

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#business #dark #even #find #granted

Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#enjoy #i #into #movies #really

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#break #finding #him #hollywood #inception

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #commentary #first #good #guarantee

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#granted #guess #i #people #respectability

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#coherence #disciplines #easily #facts #grant