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I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level. ↗

— Stephen Rea

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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#ask #camera #comes #gloomy #me

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#career #crying #doing #fulfilled #game

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

#artists #civilization #culture #individuals #material

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals. ↗

— Herbert Read

#army #body #common #common interests #defend

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. ↗

— Herbert Read

#character #formulate #ideals #man #only

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. ↗

— Herbert Read

#compromised #continuity #feeling #historical #however

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. ↗