#your

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#desire #different #easy #film-maker #get

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#fantasy #films #hatred #imagination #into

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#around #day #get #going #lying

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#affair #because #build #business #cliffs

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#find #how #jump #out #unfold

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#feel #friends #resentful #succeed #superior

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#i #mate #politics #share #soul

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on. ↗

— Jo Brand

#along #anything #because #children #comes

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't. ↗

— Jo Brand

#because #either #i #jokes #laugh