#graph

- Com'è l'Africa? - gli chiedevano. - Stanca. ↗

— Alessandro Baricco

#geography #africa

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#asked #autograph #believing #claus #department

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#photography

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#begin #breaking #chapters #characters #delving

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#both #college #grammar #grammar school #margaret

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me. ↗

— Boris Becker

#how #i #know #many #me

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#antiques #books #covers #done #falling

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.' ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#down #ended #familiar #five #four

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#instruction #painted #photograph #picture #sun

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was. ↗

— Cilla Black

#biography #book #had #i #like