#though

We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#consider #definition #films #indie #indies

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#best #day #end #end of the day #human

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#anymore #became #because #change #cut

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Drew Carey

#before #carlin #comic #george #george carlin

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will? ↗

— Johnny Unitas

#always #ball #confidence #could #had

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#bitter #cannot #coming #desired #dreadful

Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials. ↗

— David Zucker

#business #business partners #commercials #create #distribution

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#christ #coming #live #lives #our

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#am #approach #best #better #blatant