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Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#bodily #bring #close #darkness #effect

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist. ↗

— Anna Friel

#apart #audience #being #believable #care

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another. ↗

— Fred Frith

#another #beyond #clear #component #fairly

Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that. ↗

— Anna Friel

#america #back #because #bracket #come

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. ↗

— Fred W. Friendly

#any #bigger #greatest #press #printing

Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children. ↗

— John Gibbon

#children #few #forget #grief #horror

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organization of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal. ↗

— Friedrick Engels

#democracy #engelism #free-thinker #free-thought #freedom

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive. ↗

— Brené Brown

#listening #shame #speaking #courage

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for. ↗

— Fred Frith

#band #could #couple #felt #first

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#activate #choice #choices #create #creation