#rip

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#battle #brightest #face #far #fought

We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#again #amazing #because #butler #character

I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#dealing #events #every #extensively #fairly

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#businessman #economics #electorate #experienced #fortunes

Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#cross #cross country #nah #polls #skiers

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#fired #got #i #killed #memento

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.' ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#decision #good #good wife #hits #i

If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#hatred #illegal #incite #insult #justin

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean. ↗

— Brad Thor

#beginning #clean #crisp #description #far

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. ↗

— Jean Paul

#around #away #coming #concealed #distant