#ted

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared. ↗

— Paula Deen

#eat #enough #even #gracious #house

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books. ↗

— Len Deighton

#believe #books #certain #encouraged #i

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#i #kong #leslie #other #people

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior. ↗

— Julie Delpy

#comedy #drama #easier #expected #film

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen. ↗

— Julie Delpy

#director #eight #experienced #first #fourteen

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#misattributed #paul-valery #writing #art

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince. ↗

— Ted Demme

#been #i #like #miramax #now

We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty. ↗

— Jose de Diego

#citizens #either #inherent #natural #puerto

Oh yeah, that was the thing to do at that time. This was before the new wave of bebop started. ↗

— Martin Denny

#before #new #oh #oh yeah #started

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future. ↗

— Charlie Dent

#always #enjoy #freedom #future #holocaust