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The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

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• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Time
  • Think
  • Care

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Something

• If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Know
  • Support

• It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Support
  • Cold
  • Loving

• I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Words
  • Party
  • Government

• I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Trust

• An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Old

• Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Pain
  • Growth
  • Wall

• I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Art
  • Faith

• I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

  

  Kerry Bishe
  • Training
  • Chicago

• New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?

  

  Christian Scott
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• I'm not that smart, and I don't read things.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Smart

• A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • Strong

• Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

  

  Lynn Abbey
  • Good
  • Believe

• I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

  

  Lynn Abbey

• Every day I left that place I felt a little bit dirty about it.

  

  Kevin Talley Chimaira
  • Place
  • Dirty

• For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Up
  • Song
  • Girl

• If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

  

  George Herbert

• Madness happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book Speaking Freely: A Memoir - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children - infants. And the Down syndrome kids and other kids had been, in some cases, routinely let die, to use the euphemism.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Children
  • Book
  • Madness

• I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Up
  • Poverty

• The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

  

  Jonathan Frid
  • Theatre
  • Rooms