That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
Dennis Potter
Recitation: by Male by Female
My whole life, I wanted to be an actor. Perhaps the seed was planted when I saw Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien', wiping the floor with the men on the ship.
Jessica Chastain
LifeMenSeedShipAlienActor
The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.
John Brunner
CarImpossibleComputersYouGroup
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
John Avlon
WisdomPoliticsPoliticalTalking
General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.
Michael Hastings
LovePowerFallGoHimSuccessful
I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I've got some standards.
MaryJanice Davidson
CarDoorForgetOpenStandardsGot
What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.
Mary Beard
MeThoughtGenerationClassicsIdea
If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you.
Louise Leakey
HopeWalkSmallDieYouEarth
Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.
Janine di Giovanni
WorkFreedomNonviolenceSeeking
We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.
Djimon Hounsou
TogetherFunCoolInspireGoSee
With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.
Dougray Scott
WarPeopleSituationCountryNow
Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.
Claire Danes
LoveHistoryArtIdeasThinking
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
Boy George
GreatAppearanceLookDramaMuch
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