#leading

I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#austen #because #characters #dickens #effectively

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between. ↗

— Roma Downey

#between #endless #far #few #girlfriend

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#battlefield #job #leading #lieutenant #most

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#only #ridiculous #road #step #sublime

There is no road of flowers leading to glory. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#glory #leading #road

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#leading #really #rise #risen #should

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever. ↗

— Seth Godin

#back #concept #connecting #forever #goes

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading. ↗

— Seth Godin

#being a leader #charisma #comes #gives #leader

And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#august #best #confidence #corn #doing

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life. ↗

— Alec Guinness

#been #enough #essentially #his #i