#act

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#among #assumed #become #foot #gay

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor? ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#absolutely #actor #age #ask #could

There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#actor #better #certain #energy #enough

It's very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height. ↗

— Heather Mills

#exactly #heels #height #high #high heels

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#attacks #embody #fort #hood #human

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#compact #first #fundamental #government #larger

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#america #been #fact #government #her

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#american #american life #belief #capacity #competing

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#comes #faction #human #impulse #intrinsic

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#common-sense #enact #even #failed #gun