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Tobias Menzies Quotes

'Rome' plays on universal human emotions that hopefully people can relate to. Historians are always going to be offended by it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: March 7, 1974

Topics

People Emotions Rome Offended Human

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

John Mellencamp

Worry I Can Write Lines Adult Pop

Science doesn't have flags. Science doesn't have borders.

Science Borders Flags

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect.

Heart Poetry Me You Tragedy Paradox

I never played for records. If I had played for records, then I would have had many more runs against my name. If, by your performance, the team wins, then that is what is most gratifying.

Mohammad Azharuddin

Team Performance Name More Never

As the number of people who work at Basecamp has grown, I've noticed places where we could use more features, like management, structure, and guidelines. I've also noticed places where we've overengineered ourselves and should pull back.

Work People Management Back Places

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

Me Acting Human Hunger Pursuit

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Happiness Tragedy Emotions Understand

What is taught in schools generally in the West Indies is that if something is your thing, it's better than anybody else's because it's yours. It's extremely provincial and also damaging. You prevent people from learning things. The biggest absurdity would be, 'Don't read Shakespeare because he was white.'

Learning People Better You White

I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

Fear Me Decisions America Doing You

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Foundation Political Solid Foundation

I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.

Women Table See Head I See Almost

I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her.

Rich Loved Cousins Park Her Get

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