#mission

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass. ↗

— Edward Norton

#always #any #door #enjoy #escape

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#after #big #commissioned #documentary #england

I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#got #i #know #knowledge #lose

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. ↗

— Sally Ride

#before #couple #detailed #get #go

Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#construction #group #i #improved #increase

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#admission #always #been #canada #complain

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. ↗

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#elucidate #irrational #mission #twentieth #twentieth century

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. ↗

— Stanley Milgram

#consequence #disappearance #far-reaching #most #responsibility

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#cheesecake #commissioned #company #get #had

Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#most #regional #response #sexual #since