#ak

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#aspiration #faith #form #love #taking

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#duty #effect #false #life-time #loom

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#big #big fan #dying #everybody #fan

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #certain #day #drown #every

The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse. ↗

— James Chanos

#back #bad #child #china #companies

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#funny #get #hardest #improvised #laugh

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#away #editing #finish #just #making

And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#black #called #convict #i #in other words

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#film #happen #happening #like #make