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The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#back #being #bring #come #dream

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#becomes #disgruntled #endlessly #going #good

A relationship is sent by God and accident. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#god #relationship #sent

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#either #else #form #government #now

It's the little things that count, hundreds of 'em. ↗

— Cliff Shaw

#hundreds #little #little things #things

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#also #area #around #century #democracy

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#because #dangerously #i #loathe #most

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#anything #arrive #certain #clear #death

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#generation #history #households #irish #like

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#leave #once #style #while #you