#ted

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#always #because #exercise #i #never

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#arms #battle #blood #came #coming

He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press. ↗

— Henry Villard

#appeared #associated #brought #bull #campaign

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. ↗

— Henry Villard

#acted #career #danger #field #general

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it. ↗

— Marie Curie

#attributed #been #essentially #historical #international

24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#fit #hour #hours #limited #material

No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States. ↗

— Henry Villard

#delay #fairly #felt #help #him

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after. ↗

— Larry David

#i #just #laughs #really #wanted

I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized. ↗

— Larry David

#comedy #commercialized #doing #had #i

I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure. ↗

— Larry David

#closure #die #heart #i #interested