#irs

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#anything #because #connected #couple #dealing

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it. ↗

— Alicia Vikander

#casting #casting directors #chance #come #decided

It's the twenty-first century. Arriving to find a bunch of old dudes in brown robes would be equally weird. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#robes #twenty-first-century #equality

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#back #end #enormity #face #first

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#came #close #distortions #experience #first

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#ability #first-rate #function #hold #ideas

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

#i #incidentally #live #love #to love

One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#conspiracy #first #first things #found #investigation

I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week. ↗