#act

And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II. ↗

— Oliver North

#country #even #fact #far #fewer

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century. ↗

— Oliver North

#billion #century #combat #dollars #fact

One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people. ↗

— Oliver North

#american people #book #book tour #break #chance

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy. ↗

— Oliver North

#american #american foreign policy #coordinate #council #foreign

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#ask #play #position #put #role

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#early #failures #few #greatest #life

I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#always #because #cards #characters #go

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#acts #aesthetic #also #always #arena

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#any #fiction #heart #job #kind

There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#carry #characters #could #critical #emotional