#bse

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#actually #i #job #life #looking

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#flying #god #his #howard #howard hughes

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#brothers #dynamics #family #father #i

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

#how #i #i am #obsessed #perceived

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#her #his #i #mine #nothing

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. ↗

— Walter Scott

#crowded #decorum #either #existence #filled

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#appear #fool #i #like #observed

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #how #i #i am #obsessed