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The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths. ↗

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.' ↗

— Tom Hooper

#australian #called #came #english #friends

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.' ↗

— Tom Hooper

#anyone #child #confidence #heard #i

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#affected #because #being #dad #father

With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#anxiety #became #changed #coming #connection

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#action #body #cannot #cells #consumers

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#fine #fish #fishing #forefathers #great

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#freedom #human #human dignity #human spirit #open

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#besides #claus #dark #go #good

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. ↗