#back

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen. ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

#back #being #desperately #despite #flying

What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#because #character #crew #fight #guy

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#backed #criticism #day #directors #entertainment

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#celebrate #doing #etiquette #film #having

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #except #fall #nothing #only

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#books #finding #four #great #i

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

#backdoor #i #i am #middle #party

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#another #back #encourage #good #good news