#ron

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#choice #could #earnings #figured #film

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept. ↗

— George Plimpton

#concept #front #guest #list #masks

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#always #been #born #brilliant #consciousness

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#any #back #beginning #compliment #confronts

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#convulsion #ever #ever after #fits #leave

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#confront #ensure #expense #hostile #insurgency

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience. ↗

— John Portman

#better #create #environment #experience #humanity

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program. ↗

— Jon Postel

#class #computer #computer program #doing #front

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#envy #feels #general #kind #least

The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#choice #comparison #conditions #different #economic