@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Sit down, son. It's all over. No-one will ever forget what you did here today." (Retiring Joe Frazier before the final round in the 'Thrilla in Manila')
🥊 #EddieFutch, legendary American #boxing trainer, #DOTD 10 October 2001.
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead."
🎭 Hollywood legend #YulBrynner #DOTD 10 October 1985. #Film #Filmmaking #Theatre
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"The enemy of #art is the absence of limitations."
🎬 #Radio, #Film and #Theatre legend #OrsonWelles #DOTD 10 October 1985. #Filmmaking
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth."
🌹🎤 #ÉdithPiaf [Édith Giovanna Gassion], French singer, #DOTD 10 October 1963.
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #GustaveLoiseau, French painter, #DOTD 10 October 1935. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎨 #WillemMaris, Dutch painter (Hague School), #DOTD 10 October 1910. #Art #Painting
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them."
Poems: mypoeticside.com/poets/alekse...
✒ #AlekseyKonstantinovichTolstoy, Russian author, poet, and playwright, #DOTD 10 October 1875. #Poetry #Theatre #Literature
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social“Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.”
✒ #CharlesFourier, French philosopher and academic, one of the early founders of utopian socialism, #DOTD 10 October 1837. #Philosophy
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social⚒️ #AntoineCoysevox, French sculptor, #DOTD 10 October 1720. #Art #Sculpture
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social⚒️ #GiorgioDaSebenico, Venetian sculptor and architect (Cathedral of St James in Šibenik), #DOTD 10 October 1473. #Art #Sculpture
@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@jckaelin.bsky.social@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it."
🎬 #AndrzejWajda, Polish #film and #theatre director, #DOTD 9 October 2016. #Filmmaking
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible."
✒ #JacquesDerrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic, #DOTD 9 October 2004. #Philosophy
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do."
🕯️ #OskarSchindler, Austrian industrialist, subject of the novel "Schindler's Ark" and the film "Schindler's List", #DOTD 9 October 1974. #Holocaust
