#shake

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

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I have grown up loving Shakespeare. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#i #loving #shakespeare #up

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think. ↗

— Colin Firth

#country #denying #english #english people #exist

I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake. ↗

— George Foreman

#dread #everywhere #firm #go #got

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#extreme #form #shakespeare #theater

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#ever #fascinated #hardly #his #imagination

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war. ↗

— Anna Torv

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Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children. ↗

— Chris Ware

#been #certain #children #continually #dead

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently. ↗

— Sam Waterston

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