"The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please."

-- J. B. Priestley

#Civilization Quotes #Skills Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.”
“In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.”

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“You need more than an idea to run a business”
“The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.”
“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
“Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!”
“If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.”
“[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.”

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