#lear

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#connect #developed #fiction #find #follow

I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy. ↗

— David Wenham

#crazy #deterioration #find #finishes #humanity

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#because #children #country #france #italy

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#children #cities #did #eggs #explained

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#aspects #being #challenge #continue #countryside

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#accomplishment #any #background #child #children

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling. ↗

— Serena Williams

#crying #difficult #fight #going #had

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir. ↗

— Connie Willis

#belief #choir #church #everything #know

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#behaved #how #i #learned #machinery

I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#characters #draw #drive #electronics #enough