#real

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#buy #consumerism #getting #improve #lives

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing. ↗

— John Hawkes

#crazy person #ever #person #playing #really

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening. ↗

— Alexander Woollcott

#fattening #i #illegal #immoral #like

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#life-and-death #realization #death

But love is this really powerful thing that everyone's got if they'd just learn how to accept it. I mean, come on. If it's something we all have to give, and if it's something we all want, doesn't that mean there's exactly enough to go around? ↗

— Philip Beard

#realistic-fiction #young-adult #death

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. ↗

— Carla Bley

#anything #get #hard #joke #political

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law. ↗

— Gary Gilmore

#freedom #get #i #law #only

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#funny #got #lot #man #punishment

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#been #done #episodic #filmmaking #people

The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#beginning #different #ending #endings #first