#th

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#chaos #definitely #i #more #order

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#asked #certainly #concept #different #different things

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#audience #been #blockbusters #brought #down

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#children #college #know #leave #life

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. ↗

— Leon Theremin

#artistry #conceived #conductor #create #effect

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#finished #hard #know #never #nothing

I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#eye #i #i think #important #keep

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#golf #letter #other #reason #up

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me. ↗

— Martin Niemoller

#left #me #out #speak #then

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them. ↗

— Aaron Yoo

#could #just #literally #new #new york