"I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise."

-- J. J. Johnson

#Community Quotes #Hollywood Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.”
“Treat me good, I'll treat you better, treat me bad and I'll treat you worse.”
“Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.”

Source : "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". Interview with Lizzie Simon, www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.
“Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.”

Source : "Weapons made with 3-D printers could test gun-control efforts" by Michael S. Rosenwald, www.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2013.
“Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.”

Source : "Easy money: George Osborne lets Bank of England print £50billion more cash to stave off recession" by Graham Hiscott, www.mirror.co.uk. February 10, 2012.
“Studios are so used to digital now and there is a mythology that it's cheaper. But it's really not cheaper. For instance, digital is great for night exteriors, everybody knows it's a video tap, so it's very responsive to light. So you can go out at night, shoot with digital and it's gorgeous, beautiful to look at . Conversely, you go out and shoot day exterior, and it slams you, just like you know from your own video recording.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I suddenly thought about being backstage, and I think it shocks you to meet the people you shared your bedrooms with. And a lot of them either take themselves too seriously or don't know how to take themselves at all. But I wanted to be aware in a very sarcastic way that every song I've written has probably been written about 12-16 times before. And doing that makes it very hard for me to accept serious singer-songwriters in the world, the up-and-comers, the ones who are out there who let that define their every move, who live and die and breathe for it. It's a bit of a tragedy, I think.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth”

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