#take

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#anything #conquer #cowboy #like #live

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#around #bump #city #day #happen

I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#doing #feel #funny #funny guy #guy

There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#certain #could #couple #distracting #film

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples. ↗

— John Searle

#examples #extensions #find #i #ice

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway. ↗

— George Saunders

#anyway #care #caring #dedicate #happen

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people! ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#embarrassing #fewer #fewer people #front #make

We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray. ↗

— Evan Sayet

#although #anne #canada #easy #even

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#calling #concrete #did #failed #giving

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#clear #cliches #common #days #how