#rough

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

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#fiction #filtered #food #i #liquor

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other. ↗

— Russell Brand

#each #had #her #me #mum

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him! ↗

— Eva Braun

#eyes #go #had #happen #hear

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#computer #criticize #dare #ennobled #expensive

I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life. ↗

— Eric Bana

#being #brought #european #family #friends

I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them. ↗

— Travis Barker

#friday #i #kids #leave #monday

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#heart #his #man #quickest #quickest way

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written. ↗