#want

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. ↗

— John Ruskin

#compensate #cultivation #every #kind #make

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not? ↗

— Kurt Russell

#methods #off #police #questions #say

If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#i see #other #see #side #somebody

If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#goes #lot #pay #picture #think

The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is. ↗

— Mark Russell

#been #careful #harsh #keep #meat

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #am #ancient #asked #assigned

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. ↗

— Richard Russo

#against #already #always #any #been

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#change #good #happen #happened #me

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#get #going #got #just #sufficient

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process. ↗

— George A. Romero

#could #dark #days #effect #expensive