#elf

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. ↗

— Mary Renault

#audience #believe #make #nearly #see

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

— Ruth Rendell

#i #into #literally #myself #put

Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#being #course #down #gains #increased

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience. ↗

— Sally Ride

#change #experience #had #i #life

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#certainty #come #deceive #does #essential

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. ↗

— Laura Riding

#constant #create #end #even #give

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf. ↗

— Alice S. Rossi

#equality #men #self-esteem #sense #sexual

Acting is way of making yourself exist. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#exist #making #way #yourself

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#anybody #else #father #feet #felt

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#how #leave #many #measure #people