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“In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.”

Long Past Actors Audience Century Theatre Collections Playwright Past Life Audience Of One

Book:Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading

Source: Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading

“Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons). In the century of Hitler and Stalin, this seems ingenuous.”

“Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.”

Actors Century Influential Brando Movie Actors

Author:Roger Ebert

“This is not the 19th century, where actors are expected to play completely opposite roles. We're not typecast, but we're brought in because somebody thinks that it's a good fit, so you make it a better fit.”

Thinking Play Actors Roles Century Fit Opposites Expected 19th Century

Author:Kate Mulgrew

“The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face.”

Faces Actors Challenges Century Security Serious Including 21st Century Isis Rogues

Author:Jeb Bush

“According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.”

Source: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas