#so

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#easy #jackie #mine #ride #robinson

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#crazy #did #guy #i #knack

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#depressed #eternal #eternal life #fact #forever

It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people. ↗

— Peter Oliver

#given #his #people #quota #rebels

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#always #consciousness #fascinating #get #idea

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#director #film #film set #find #go

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#by the time #could #feel #fiction #fiction writers

The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#books #daughter #decision #earlier #else

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#always #beyond #going #got #home

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#drawing #farmer #feel #going #just