#som

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#decline #i #know #mine #movies

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#building #culture #democracy #election #event

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#battling #code #countryside #down #economic

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#else #idea #no idea #something #too

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#had #i #like #make #me

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#her #hit #japan #me #obsessed

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#deep #empty #fed #i #learned

You have to give people something to dream on. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#give #people #something #you

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny. ↗

— Beth Henley

#both #funny #good #good things #horrible

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct. ↗

— Beth Henley

#directing #directors #five #got #guinea