#digging

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past. ↗

— Anita Desai

#back #backwards #begins #believe #book

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall. ↗

— Alex Haley

#black #brown #digging #feel #feet

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#digging #ditch #entire #entire world #far

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#digging #grave #i #knew #my own

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#between #country #digging #fantastic #faraway

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging! ↗

— Denis Healey

#first #first law #holes #law #stop

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#again #back #because #digging #even

I changed my mind. Get out of my house now. I'll set your things on fire and mail you the ashes. ↗

— J. Sterling

#change

If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#done #ended #hadn #i #might

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#after #became #cancer #character #delved