#che

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#artifice #avoid #cannot #cheating #honesty

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#audition #birdie #bitten #bug #bye

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me. ↗

— Burton Richter

#chemistry #convinced #entered #first #i

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#acting #control #nerves #over #touches

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did. ↗

— Sally Ride

#did #encouragement #friends #got #i

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#choice #complain #easy #god #grumble

I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India. ↗

— Terry Riley

#already #big #career #cbs #curved

He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable. ↗

— Robert Ripley

#gosh #head #his #i #just

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie. ↗

— Julia Roberts

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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

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