#ak

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#amazing #arts #create #enough #food

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#appropriated #being #british #cultural #current

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#extraordinary #shakespeare

Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.' ↗

— Michelle Branch

#finally #fun #go #here #i

Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me. ↗

— Jo Brand

#bit #cause #i #initial #kill

So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently. ↗

— Jo Brand

#children #different #fact #had #hoping

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic. ↗

— Jo Brand

#boxes #comics #fairly #friends #great

What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully. ↗

— Jo Brand

#already #any #been #did #festival

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. ↗

— Russell Brand

#analysis #applying #big #could #defence

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#another #anything #cent #certain #even