#vita

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#before #coming #conscience #far #had

The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set. ↗

— Eric Bana

#everyone #film #humor #more #sense

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. ↗

— John Barton

#dramatic #inevitably #lives #poets #pull

This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love #sex #love

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#adventure #answers #any #close #home

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is. ↗

— Beck

#gravitate #had #i #idea #maybe

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#boring #drink #i #i do #insufferable

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#battle #because #below #caught #civilians

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#becomes #capitalistic #chinese #democratic #economy

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#advantage #build #follow #govern #hand