#rite

President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#back #better #brink #broken #brought

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#armed forces #because #capable #chance #citizenship

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#because #far #favorite #i #i do

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#ended #me #over #up #write

'The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative. ↗

— Jane Campion

#adult #attempted #big #complex #easily

This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere. ↗

— Jane Campion

#anywhere #cult #different #down #ethos

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. ↗

— John Updike

#assumed #century #generally #had #his

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#direct #i #i always #i write #lines

I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #dreams #empowerment #equality #feminism

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#being #direct #gets #guy #human