#sever

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles. ↗

— Faye Dunaway

#budgets #did #film #great #half

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#body #born #genre #head #her

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#close #everything #going #into #several

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#chance #change #does #fact #flood

But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#efforts #ended #europe #few #including

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#atkins #been #chet #enough #fortunate

The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#award #embodies #everybody #field #given

The last time I spoke with Robert was back in May. When his wife was murdered, I talked to several radio stations in defense of him because I know how Bobby Blake really is, and as far as I'm concerned, there's no murder in his heart. ↗

— Tommy Bond

#back #because #blake #bobby #concerned

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#becoming #cereal #change #countries #evident

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. ↗

— David Brin

#best #better #could #differential #doubt