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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#becomes #events #extraordinary #extraordinary things #human

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#finding #jacket #nixon #out #tails

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ↗

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

#between #conversations #counts #friends #make

I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#always #been #being #character #character actor

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#extraordinary #managed #produce #situations #terrible

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.' ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#four #glows #hand #i #love

They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.' ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#die #fans #go #going #hat

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. ↗

— John Ruskin

#first #great #great man #hesitation #his

A book worth reading is worth buying. ↗

— John Ruskin

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