#sf

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#bad #getting #good #guess #mass

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#alike #away #successful #them #walk

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#himself #misfortune #right #sorry #strikes

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us. ↗

— Terence Young

#belly #instead #into #laugh #like

Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying." A Change Is Gonna Come ↗

— B.J. Neblett

#change #drinking #dysfunctional #relationship #self-indulgent

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#cheer #come #good #good cheer #hardest

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less. ↗

— Alex Haley

#becomes #books #children #fact #i

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. ↗

— Anna Pavlova

#arrive #being #genius #into #talent

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#anything #being #being yourself #get #into

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#background #bin #business #comes #company