#si

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. ↗

— John le Carre

#better #between #contemptuous #demonstrated #digest

But I love to be outdoors. I prefer being outdoors to, you know, being inside. ↗

— Keith Carradine

#i #i love #inside #know #love

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them. ↗

— John le Carre

#because #been #books #decisions #else

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit. ↗

— John le Carre

#absolutely #bliss #did #domestic #domestic life

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level. ↗

— John le Carre

#down #ear #entertained #entertainments #feel

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. ↗

— John le Carre

#casting #coming #creative #dressing #energy

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see. ↗

— Julian Clary

#attractive #become #conquer #desire #everyone

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#coherent #doubtless #enacted #end #eye

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#beauty #because #brains #cultivate #doors

Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#character #coming #complex #difficult #having