#sf

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#because #become #depressed #dominated #emotions

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#footnotes #history #into #silent #transformation

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. ↗

— George Eliot

#belief #does #egoism #enters #into

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#around #ball #ball game #becomes #composer

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. ↗

— George Eliot

#anything #detect #fold #heart #never

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#doubt #girl #her #i #knew

In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful. ↗

— Leo Bogart

#fun #in my opinion #makes #opinion #successful

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#attitude #enough #never #satisfied

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#entertainment #everyone #father #i #issues

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years. ↗

— James Ellroy

#black #crime #dad #elizabeth #general