#or

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#beautiful #common #common man #education #idea

Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#absolutely #bacon #between #connection #connections

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#come #company #does #fantasy #globe

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#any #big #big star #bigger #could

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#alone #been #bible #books #hamlet

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#educated #great #i #know #need

Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to create it. That was what made the modern morality, with its emphasis on individuals and the working out of an individual position, so weak. If you gave people the chance to work out their morality, then they would work out the version which was easiest for them and which allowed them to do what suited them for as much of the time as possible. That, in Mma Ramotswe's view, was simple selfishness, whatever grand name one gave to it. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#morality #beauty

Political debate: when charlatans come together to discuss their principles. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #politicians #funny

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy. ↗

— Martin Ryle

#astronomy #chair #me #new #our

Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#beings #cell #cell research #dangerous #debate