#round

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#books #finding #four #great #i

Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended. ↗

— Keith Thibodeaux

#around #attended #birthday #care #crew

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#counseling #first #ground #offense #second

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#also #around #between #constant #constant flow

Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#around #computer #drivers #god #i

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#around #bit #end #english #favor

We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#called #cities #documentary #documentary film #festival

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#being #best #coach #created #existed