#some

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#being #during #education #instructed #know

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#books #confident #continued #even #eventually

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself. ↗

— Peter Farrelly

#easier #everything #just #know #know yourself

Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe. ↗

— Peter Farrelly

#faces #fall #flat #funny #great

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#destroyed #fiction #film #genre #great

I've had everything pierced at some point. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#had #i #pierced #point #some

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#came #drawn #god #impulse #our

As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#also #audience #audience member #films #fun

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. ↗

— John Burroughs

#blame #else #fail #failure #man

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. ↗

— John Burroughs

#blame #discouraged #else #failure #get