#vin

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#having #only #right #say #them

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#brightly #cheer #coloured #diet #discarded

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. ↗

— Joel Coen

#burden #driving #education #father #jew

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#living #man #must #posthumous

Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say. ↗

— Joel Coen

#actually #director #down #gas #having

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. ↗

— Richard J. Codey

#day #earn #honest #living #living wage

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. ↗

— Joel Coen

#background #community #everything #growing #growing up

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#am #convinced #i #i am

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#disillusionment #having #illusion #moment #moments

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd. ↗

— Joel Coen

#approach #characters #conceiving #creations #even