#ali

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality. ↗

— Ethan Coen

#boring #everyday #helps #make #period

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#men #mingled #pit #place #tears

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#disorder #gaiety #genius #machine #men

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. ↗

— Tony Blair

#always #big #century #cold #cold war

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. ↗

— Tony Blair

#devalued #hopeless #just #modern #purchase

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. ↗

— Joan Didion

#girl #i #impulse #little #little girl

That's something a point guard can always work on, with keeping his dribble alive a little better. It's so important. ↗

— Steve Blake

#always #better #dribble #guard #his

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#california #came #credentials #dejected #dreams

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#acting #character #city #different #director

The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#any #appealing #character #cherishes #craft