#thro

I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#consciousness #exciting #feeling #fun #get

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#changed #direction #discovery #elevated #ever

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#africa #anthropology #around #began #biology

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#acting #emotions #heart #i #manipulate

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #manipulation #most #painting #power

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #before #being #change #during

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#duties #feel #i #i feel #incompetent

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#certain #certain extent #everything #extent #fairytale

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons. ↗

— Don Johnson

#daughter #easier #get #hell #just

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#assist #charity #elevation #his #justice