#tru

Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true. ↗

— John Robinson

#acting #appeal #classes #come #commercial

Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because it isn't true. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#because #environmentalism #happens #left #right

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#dreams #hero #hopes #reality #symbol

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#about #everyone #few #ghosts #like

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#distractions #eating #fine #flavor #food

It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#big #ears #i #interesting #man

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue. ↗

— Boyle Roche

#half #lies #opponents #our #tell

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#acquire #blessings #care #friend #greatest

People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people. ↗

— Kid Rock

#both #different #hardworking #lot #me

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#add #beneficial #constructive #hopefully #lead