#things

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#bit #forward #go #ironing #like

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science. ↗

— Poul Anderson

#been #biological #book #certain #completely

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#i #nobody #photograph #really #see

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out. ↗

— Joan Van Ark

#cartoonish #country #her #less #make

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

#better #friends #friendship #granted #greater

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody. ↗

— Jane Asher

#another #being #deciding #dressing #end

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#christian #continually #crosses #death #exercise

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#effective #impressive #mode #most #most beautiful

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#anything #essence #essentially #express #exterior

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations. ↗

— Jane Asher

#because #business #buying #cake #cakes