#cause

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#because #close #delicate #down #longer

The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

#because #best #best way #come #dry

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#beginning #character #characteristics #displaying #else

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#comedies #i #like #more #than

I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#away #because #becomes #bit #collaborative

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#agree #ambition #because #coming #connected

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#books #encourage #feel #gesture #heroic

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#good #listeners #long #politicians #very

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries. ↗

— Tim Curry

#business #different #i #i think #industries

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#because #i #i can #lot #nothing