3 December 2020 Pierre Corneille Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
3 December 2020 Nicolas Cage I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.
3 December 2020 H. Jackson Brown, Jr. In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.
3 December 2020 Timothy Spall I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.
3 December 2020 Chris Cooper I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don’t think I’m capable of that.
3 December 2020 Zoe Kazan I grew up in L.A., and I don’t think I’ve seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
3 December 2020 William Gilbert If you wish in this world to advance your merits you’re bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven’t a chance.
3 December 2020 Chanakya Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
3 December 2020 Adrian Grenier I think anybody who’s famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who’s looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.
3 December 2020 Dave Rowntree The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.
3 December 2020 Eugene Kennedy The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Not to say people shouldn’t get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
3 December 2020 Frances McDormand Most women’s pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men’s pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
3 December 2020 William Hague Where defining foreign policy as ‘ethical’ went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
3 December 2020 Linda Blair I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That’s why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
3 December 2020 A. R. Ammons Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
3 December 2020 Abbie Hoffman You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
