#or

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#appropriated #being #british #cultural #current

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#alec #anthony #anthony hopkins #being #derek

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#extraordinary #shakespeare

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#image #offers #sharpness

Closer to home, the vast majority of terrorist attaches on U.S. soil have been perpetrated by Christian terrorist groups in the past 15 years. (p. 76) ↗

— John L. Esposito Dalia Mogahed

#islam #terrorism #home

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear. ↗

— Fred Upton

#clean #coal #drilling #energy #energy policy

My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#had #helping #i #jeans #label

Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.' ↗

— Michelle Branch

#finally #fun #go #here #i

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#counts #patterns #theories #value #without

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly. ↗

— Jo Brand

#apparently #become #beginning #bit #cuddly