#ect

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#contemporary #effective #generation #hopefully #i

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad. ↗

— Joe Wright

#because #cameraman #dad #designer #director

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling. ↗

— Joe Wright

#afterwards #choices #come #feeling #generally

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe. ↗

— Judith Wright

#deeper #get #gratification #instant #instant gratification

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit. ↗

— Judith Wright

#addictions #alluring #aspect #attain #cases

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. ↗

— Peter Wright

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I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it? ↗

— Peter Wright

#colour #flooding #front #going #i

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it. ↗

— Steven Wright

#collection #i #keep #largest #perhaps

I typically go overboard when I research new projects. ↗

— Will Wright

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