#sf

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now. ↗

— Jane Campion

#better #cinema #conservative #daring #go

The government never does anything successfully. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#does #government #never #successfully

But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#administration #agenda #continue #country #direction

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#fact #fully #lacking #lives #may

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful. ↗

— Linford Christie

#because #been #i #i think #me

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#because #directors #everything #force #forces

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#adult #became #began #boy #dreamed

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it. ↗

— Robbie Keane

#i #i think #qualifying #second #stage

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do. ↗

— Deana Carter

#everyone #idea #once #should #successful

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. ↗

— James Fenton

#back #herself #lullaby #mother #ogre