#ted

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#agents #box #get #imaginations #into

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#actor #attitude #because #center #child

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#chances #getting #increase #liberal #life

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#competing #curiosities #divorced #facts #isolated

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#corrected #dogmatism #facts #mistakes #pay

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bracket #called #decade #imagine #into

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#because #explanation #happen #happened #most

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#considered #conveyor #coordinated #effective #fast

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#because #been #believe #change #committed

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#away #been #characters #four #getting