#tag

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#asking #concentrating #disadvantage #faith #future

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#absolutely #could #doing #emotions #express

It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#did #ego #egypt #find #first

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#because #camera #dedicated #down #equipment

The only stage direction Jackie ever gave him, George said was: 'If you want to stay in the picture, stay close to me.' The rest of the cast remembered a television director's adage. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#cast #close #direction #director #ever

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#concert #fashion #fashion show #fun #have fun

One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#been #bloody #entire #foul #his

If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#i #know #onstage #tubes #weird

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#bold #days #dear #early #grew

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#devil #hardly #i #i am #onstage