#ra

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#character #dead #every #give #inexperienced

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc. ↗

— George Seaton

#aunt #autobiographies #clever #clever people #distinctly

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. ↗

— David McCullough

#art #being #civic #enlargement #experience

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair. ↗

— David McCullough

#before #british #chair #had #i

To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting. ↗

— Ian McDiarmid

#age #back #character #complicated #go

I want to understand the elements that compose courage in the same way I understand the periodic table. I feel that by knowing the periodic table of courage I can be courageous, at least periodically. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#courageous #humor #courage

But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#beyond #billion #break #buy #consumers

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#agent #later #no problem #orange #pentagon

For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one. ↗

— Ian McDiarmid

#because #chance #character #comes #emotionally

It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right. ↗

— Ian McDiarmid

#camera #closer #embraced #filming #final