#era

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment. ↗

— Anthony Rapp

#actor #because #creating #how #i

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. ↗

— Simon Raven

#circumstances #contrived #gentlemen #manifestly #now

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ↗

— Simon Raven

#class #common #common man #early #faring

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I? ↗

— Stephen Rea

#am #be yourself #camera #front #i

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. ↗

— Herbert Read

#balance #efficiency #forms #general #greatest

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#i #into #literally #myself #put

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history. ↗

— Albert Reynolds

#becomes #before #beginning #both #call

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#campaigns #change #earth #him #hope

Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#bunch #could #done #get #idiots

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#buddy #different #english #fiction #john