#zed

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#i #most #never #possessions #prized

Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there. ↗

— Drew Carey

#day #effectively #everything #hours #legalized

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#eternal #expressive #gifted #heart #himself

Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign. ↗

— David Zucker

#absolutely #ad #ad campaign #also #business

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#because #big #big problems #brahms #distressing

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#back #before #being #civilized #easy

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers. ↗

— Nancy Cartwright

#authorized #fire #i #i am #substitute

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#actor #another #character #character actor #did

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity. ↗

— Julian Castro

#back #brains #classmates #difference #dreams

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#because #dreams #happy #how #i