#them

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#found #give #glad #hope #i

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#burden #children #feel #grim #i

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat? ↗

— John Cleese

#eat #god #intend #make #meat

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. ↗

— John Cleese

#enough #give #play #them #time

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#characters #comes #i #i love #intimacy

Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working! ↗

— Guy Fieri

#bag #cook #cooking #food #go

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#ballot box #box #constantly #each #gang

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#because #billion #cast #down #enough

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#commitments #far #genuine #identifies #matters

You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#come #film #found #i #interesting