#thing

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. ↗

— John Milius

#commander #director #egotism #even #field

I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him. ↗

— John Milius

#anybody #better #else #enough #form

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave. ↗

— John Milius

#authenticity #back #behave #certain #cleopatra

Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too. ↗

— John Milius

#became #because #degree #fact #i

You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually. ↗

— John Milius

#going #judgment #know #never #nothing

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#decayed #degraded #feeling #moral #much

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#better #chance #creature #exertions #fight

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#being #better #chance #creature #exertions

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance. ↗

— Mark Millar

#everything #having #headache #i #publisher

I try to do things I haven't been able to before. ↗

— David Morse

#been #before #haven #i #things