#rising

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising. ↗

— Adam Brody

#i think #intelligent #intelligent people #look #people

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#first #generation #hungarian #life #uprising

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#advanced #frequency #get #i #most

I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#going #gonna #guy #hate #i

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves. ↗

— Leon Uris

#am #because #been #century #easter

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#hard #how #just #ourselves #surprising

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#death #education #enable #preventable #put

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#because #big #big band #everyone #i

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#father #found #having #i #left

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. ↗

— George Washington

#avoid #desire #instruments #insult #known