#or

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#generous #greatest #greedy #i #i think

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally. ↗

— Mark Udall

#capacity #congress #globally #iraq #marines

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#gloomy #hamlet #i #mad #nor

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