#reluctant

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#break #cable #difficult #directors #easier

When I grow up, maybe I will be the first one to circle the sea. Or maybe I will just spend all my day doing everything my way. Maybe I will be in a world of my own I just hope not alone. I just know that whatever I do I will never, ever forget about you. ↗

— Oliver Neubert

#avid-reader #coming-of-age #fable #female-protagonist #life-skills

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#act #else #equating #everyone #freedom

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#intellectual #reluctant #life

the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.) ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#life

I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#bull #dudes #greased #hate #how

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#freedom #help #here #lands #lives

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one. ↗

— Brian Eno

#am #any #being #i #i am

I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home. ↗

— Richard Briers

#age #aged #became #because #especially

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#opposes #recognize #reluctant #who