#eat

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#great #privileges #terrace #witness

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing. ↗

— Warren Cuccurullo

#art #business #creative #marketing #most

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather. ↗

— Javier Perez de Cuellar

#feather #feel #free #free man #i

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#define #eaten #fantasies #i #into

You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#life #death

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#been #different #directors #great #however

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#dining #king #polonius #social-classes #death

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#battle #blood #coming #fresh #his

If this was what Mikhail called opening the gate close to Zayvion’s body, I was going to kill a compass and a slide rule and send them through the gates of death to him. ↗

— Devon Monk

#death

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#after #again #back #because #going