#out

I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the same time. 'Austin Powers' came out on DVD, I got a series regular gig on 'Buffy' and 'Can't Hardly Wait' came out. ↗

— Seth Green

#acting #austin #austin powers #been #buffy

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#ahead #assumption #better #get #good

I'm not too worried about that. I am a big believer in modeling. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#am #believer #big #big believer #i

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#concept #country #democracy #freedom #idea

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#computers #discovery #finding #friends #home

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#certainly #eventually #gets #himself #i

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#actually #first #first of all #interest #moment

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#also #believe #broken #care #complicated

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#actually #else #give #i #i think

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography! ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#anything #biography #even #having #his