#sit

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. ↗

— Sam Rayburn

#circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #good #good action

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#ambiguity #appalling #book #boy #butcher

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. ↗

— Herbert Read

#bitter #blowing #knows #sensitive #wind

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. ↗

— Herbert Read

#belief #characteristic #despair #political #positive

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#brute #curiosity #examining #food #habit

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit. ↗

— Marion Ross

#born #come #far #i #i was born

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on. ↗

— Robert Redford

#know #move #move on #never #past

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me. ↗

— Jamie Redknapp

#am #get #i #i am #me