Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.
While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.
I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.'
I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
It's obvious that Pemex doesn't have the financial capacity to be in every single front of energy generation.
We won't get economic growth if we don't look after our mothers and the potential of the next generation. They need to be prioritised.
Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his [sic!] time but most people are far behind theirs.
People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.
With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.
You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.
I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'
