#dent

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#confident #cunning #directors #extra #feel

How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration) ↗

— John Steinbeck

#of #president #remind #you #beauty

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#certain #certain point #fact #goes #idea

I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#been #confident #full #future #hope

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#believe #big #big challenge #challenge #frankly

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #art #civilization #contemporary #contemporary art

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#bald #candidates #disagreeable #fat #how

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#across #arizona #automobile #come #devastating

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#once #person #point #selected

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#chairs #common #common sense #exist #happens