#meth

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#attempt #believing #change #change the world #choose

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#bothering #could #done #get #i

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake. ↗

— Parker Posey

#be real #comedians #doing #fun #go

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted. ↗

— Jon Postel

#i #predicted #quite #really #something

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life. ↗

— Franka Potente

#been #being #conscious #consciously #going

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#assert #be yourself #order #something #you

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#one thing #only #should #something #suppose

I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#always #annoying #back #conversation #degree

One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive? ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#down #drive #ghastly #hand #hundred

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#ass #better #chair #club #down