#dio

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#every #few #i #i am #idiot

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio. ↗

— Ursula Andress

#got #i #into #make #me

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#concepts #conveys #cultural #current #film

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer. ↗

— Joan Van Ark

#i #idiot #joke #least #longer

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#camera #difficult #dolly #floors #moving

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#art #differ #good #good art #household

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits. ↗

— John Avlon

#fear #find #follows #new #now

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base. ↗

— John Avlon

#conventional #conventional wisdom #cycle #different #give

Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics it was either that or back to the dole queue on Monday. Sorry I missed the Wednesday lunch date, but I was in a black hole all morning. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#hhgttg #maths #physics #radio #dating

We live in an age of mediocrity. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#live #mediocrity