#wards

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#did #i #know #prime #until

It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#boosts #get #industry #new #self-esteem

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#backwards #condition #further #greek #how

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#awards #because #distracted #done #film

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#cannot #cast #covet #doth #even

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#always #approaching #because #boats #could

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. ↗

— Ben Elton

#equal #feeling #opposite #resentment #sympathy

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service. ↗

— Julian Bond

#gratification #immediate #justice #many #need

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#directing #directors #everyone #film #how

I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#conclusions #detective #i #jumped #me