#people

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#country #enters #first #first time #him

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore. ↗

— Kiran Desai

#people #change

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives. ↗

— Corbin Bernsen

#entertain #i #i love #laugh #lives

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#contempt #culture #disinformation #form #garbage

I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave. ↗

— Claude Berri

#films #i #leave #make #move

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#else #need #people #saying #something

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion. ↗

— Raymond Berry

#appreciate #back #coming #forward #i

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. ↗

— John Betjeman

#like #luxury #many #me #modern

I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us. ↗

— Luc Besson

#attracted #helps #i #i think #lost

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. ↗

— John Betjeman

#benefactors #front #gardens #houses #interesting