Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.
David Alan Grier
Recitation: by Male by Female
I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.
Jim C. Hines
WritingStoryDeepSeriousGroup
My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.
Meaghan Rath
FamilyMotherBlessingBeginningNow
Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
Matthew Green
ExperienceCommon SenseProvidence
What America did in Vietnam and the Congo - we feel. And as a result come these demonstrations. I am not defending the act of burning USIS books. We deplore it. But we can understand the motives of the students.
Sukarno
I AmFeelAmericaResultUnderstand
Absolutely, federal health care options in Congress should mirror those offered in the private sector. If these options are not available in the private sector, then folks working for the federal government should not have them either.
Rob Woodall
HealthMirrorGovernmentCare
Some of what I consider my best work, and some of the best films that I've ever worked on, kind of disappear without a trace. There's no accounting for it. Something connects, or something doesn't.
Roger Deakins
WorkBestAccountingKindWithout
Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.
Rob Gronkowski
EyesFootballPainParentsTears
I dream of living off the land completely - in vain, because the monkeys eat everything.
Mira Nair
DreamLivingLandEatEverything
I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.
Josh Hartnett
GoodVisionWorldGameUniqueFind
In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we know what we are talking about. But in non-narrative cinema, we are a little bit lost. So sometimes, the only way to make us understand what we are talking about is to use the term 'avant-garde.'
Jonas Mekas
TalkingCinemaLostKnowSometimes
Very dangerous things, theories.
Dorothy L. Sayers
DangerousThingsVeryTheories
If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
Brad Thor
LookTableKnowWantGlassTalk
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