#who

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world. ↗

— Lukas Haas

#action #actor #around #basically #blowing

One never really knows who one's enemy is. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#knows #never #really #who

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creative writing #creative writing programs #exist #france #idea

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#how #line #look #obliged #particular

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#advertise #anybody #elite #forces #go

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#chapter #hate #heard #i #last

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#big #coaster #construct #first #good

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#away #become #being #come #decide

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#art form #been #before #creating #flourish