#th

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that. ↗

— Susan Oliver

#centres #cities #death #died #get

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#ago #black #disappointment #golden #i

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#been #cardinals #kings #many #one time

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#given #heart #human #human heart #i

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#better #diligent #expert #god #i

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#film #greatest #me #moments #myself

My doctors say I am very healthy. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#doctors #healthy #i #i am #say

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#amongst #britain #china #country #desire

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#minister #must #prime #prime minister #promise