#want

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#facts #history #i #important #want

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#because #difficult #directed #found #getting

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#book #conscious #first #go #guess

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#build #chance #democracy #enough #explain

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do. ↗

— Arthur Boyd

#art #matter #out #painter #points

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#child #could #great #had #i

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#professional #soon #sunk #then #think

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#another #coming #dump #expenses #guy

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#finally #i #i can #reached #stage

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#film #films #i #make #objectively