#ted

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#material #really #rich #talented #wonderfully

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#been #coin #i #interested #me

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#education #go #i #out #university

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

I'm attracted to the past. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #past

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#fact #new #people #work

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#being #beyond #bold #enough #go

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government. ↗

— John Stossel

#creates #discovered #government #i #limited

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct. ↗

— John Stossel

#been #bullied #bullies #business #camera