#soapbox

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#comes #fear #higher #i #merchants

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#know #me #should #sitting #soapbox

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#agenda #beliefs #cinema #getting #i

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers. ↗

— John Grisham

#alienate #anything #getting #one thing #pulpit

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#anger #angry #come #get #humour

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#experience #fun #know #knowing #made

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#never #rhetoric #soapbox #stand #trade