#slight

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#appeal #ends #exploring #extreme #forgotten

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#bear #below #coward #equal #ever

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#being #constantly #could #make #slightly

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#aversion #cerebral #deep #deep down #down

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. ↗

— George Sand

#destroy #enthusiasm #i #instantly #nature

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#being #childhood #from time to time #i #little

Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up. ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#aware #body #come #every #every time

So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had. ↗

— Carly Simon

#fashion #had #happened #i #mature

When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#appalled #comedians #comic #embarrassed #freddie

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom