#act

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. ↗

— David Remnick

#complex #constant #enough #everything #happy

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#among #conceive #fact #followed #good

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#i #into #literally #myself #put

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s. ↗

— Jean Reno

#few #friends #i #known #life

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#facts #learning #life #life-lessons #mathematics

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal? ↗

— Jean Renoir

#any #betrayal #possible #succeed #without

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#even #i #kid #mid #still

So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#contracts #last #last year #our #release

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope. ↗