#ted

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. ↗

— David Bowie

#always #anything #artist #bit #challenge

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#borrowing #energy #excite #excited #get

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#during #graduated #had #high #high school

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#civilization #discussing #emotional #fact #friendly

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#even #four #hate #i #kinds

I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#always #anything #else #honestly #i

I've always wanted to act since I was little. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#always #i #little #since #wanted

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#biggest #city #created #dickens #expanded

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#experience #fantasy #films #hatred #imagination

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#administration #anything #cannot #china #europe