#word

The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#appear #began #book #cast #characters

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#before #characters #classic #direct #doing

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. ↗

— George Santayana

#experience #into #like #meanings #shell

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.' ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.' ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#choice #comes #down #good #horrendous

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#any #applies #back #destined #great