#thing

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen. ↗

— Ice T

#choose #chosen #fortunate #into #just

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#grandmother #smallest #things #valued

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#dreams #fantasy #involves #job #literature

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. ↗

— Tacitus

#empire #make #peace #plunder #slaughter

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me? ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#brando #done #enough #ever #everything

My mother never really thought I could become anything. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#become #could #i #mother #never

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#audience #best #brings #cannot #closer

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#colonization #end #frequently #germany #historians

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#always #apart #appearances #because #begin

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#could #course #events #generation #great