#tho

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#applies #bounced #cameraman #day #devised

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. ↗

— Herbert Read

#build #deny #enduring #ethos #i

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#buddhism #catholic #could #mankind #masses

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#barriers #constraints #erect #except #human

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#cause #community #country #gave #give

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#attention #convinced #downturn #economic #enough

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#i #i think #people #should #stories

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it. ↗

— Robert Redford

#go #had #leave #life #my life

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#better #death #even #find #future

People have always thought of me as a passer of the ball, but you can't just be that these days. ↗

— Jamie Redknapp

#ball #days #just #just be #me