#ring

You dread that there will be real problems during filming. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#dread #during #filming #problems #real

It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#machine #see #yourself

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#acted #asked #certainly #closely #domestic

I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#baby #back #bring #days #hang

Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed that at times a light seemed to be shining faintly within; but now the light was even clearer and stronger. Frodo's face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiseling of the shaping years was now revealed in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the identity of the face was not changed. Not that Sam Gamgee put it that way to himself. He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: "I love him. He's like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #sam-gamgee #tolkien #beauty

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#bad government #because #build #businesses #california

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance? ↗

— Colin Firth

#afterwards #big #case #instinct #me

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do. ↗

— Joe Flanigan

#learning #may #out #pretty #valuable

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#curious #display #drunk #inhibitions #insane

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#art #bring #dealing #different #different way