#once

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#around #being #dreamt #editors #finished

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art. ↗

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#boy #brain #conception #difference #fundamental

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#because #bell #camera #concentration #first

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#cannot #great #however #learned #man

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#being #beneath #buried #common #dust

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#also #biologists #build #classify #common

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. ↗

— Bill Russell

#margins #mental #mental toughness #toughness #victory

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#condemned #does #everything #free #into

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. ↗

— Richard Russo

#envisioned #held #i #i think #mind

Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#conflict #eased #east #find #flight