#wards

The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night. ↗

— William H. Macy

#anything #awards #because #drinking #great

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#constant #effort #even #found #increased

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#academy awards #awards #been #compromised #count

If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#break #different #fits #groove #i

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#bluff #cowards #eye #liable #like

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#attraction #basic #behaved #culture #high

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#common #common goal #distractions #goal #group

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. ↗

— George Gissing

#because #better #better things #capacity #individuals

I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans. ↗

— George Stephenson

#be happy #carrying #execution #express #favourable