#slightly

In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#director #dreams #familiar #hire #i

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#better #even #great #hours #lives

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#balances #certain #checks #disturbing #government

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

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 think I'm slightly impulsive, sometimes organised and always in search of a bargain! ↗

— Lisa Snowdon

#bargain #i #i think #impulsive #organised

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

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ↗

— William Styron

#exhausted #experiences #great #great book #leave

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#children #domestic #during #experience #female

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want. ↗

— Julie Walters

#child #eccentric #grandmother #i #lived