#mo

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#bit #britain #contemporary #endlessly #fascinating

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. ↗

— William Hague

#before #blocs #centres #civilisation #decision-making

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#between #choose #conventional #down #i

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst. ↗

— Joan Crawford

#common #common sense #friend #good #good friend

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life. ↗

— Albert Finney

#deep #emotion #feels #go #into

Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing. ↗

— Albert Finney

#amazing #capable #career #doing #england

You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather. ↗

— Albert Finney

#boyfriend #come #father #get #girl

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more. ↗

— Linda Fiorentino

#before #done #i #know #means

You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom. ↗

— Linda Fiorentino

#any #bathroom #because #family #fetish

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#demons #economists #everything #politicians #possible