The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Recitation: by Male by Female
We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.
Joel Coen
ViolenceRulesMuchMovieHowAbout
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
Maynard James Keenan
DoctorChoicesLawyerArtistNever
A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.
Meghan O'Rourke
TimeDeathGoodbyeLongYouSay
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
John Millington Synge
SisterLordLiverHerGiveGuts
We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
Jean de La Fontaine
OthersSeeThroughUsLike
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
Robertson Davies
DoubtFanaticism
I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and began being blessed by those that were basically hopeless. To see them have hope was the biggest blessing in my life.
Ron Hall
LifeHopeBlessingArtBlessedRich
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
Mick Jagger
MotherUnhappySheAlwaysSomething
Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.
Bruce Davison
HollywoodMoreEverythingUseLess
I'm such a theater geek. Most of my friends are in this community, and it's really important for me to keep doing it. It takes the ego out of acting, whereas movies tend to involve it.
Ari Graynor
CommunityMeEgoDoingActingOut
Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.
Peter Dinklage
FoodAnimalsUsedLikeMachinery
I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.
Pele
ProudThoughtNameSeriousImportant
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