Tape Your Mouth
That’s partly why I’m so fed up with the current attitude to general arts funding. Bafta-wise, we are in very productive times. Great writing and acting. But this government just don’t support it enough. They talk this crap about: we’ll support it as long as you make blockbusters. Yet in order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail. And some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won’t necessarily be blockbusters. Today much of the more interesting stuff is being done on TV because it’s not governed by Hollywood, is it?
— Julie Walters
This is lovely. (#3 wins.)
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?: Please do me this very small favour →
PLEASE READ THIS (just the bits in bold will do): I don’t want your money – I just want your copy and paste skills.
Last January (2011), I found out that my friend Gerard Poole – someone who has more often than not been annoyingly fit and health conscious (Me: “Oh, for God’s sake: is he REALLY…
View Larger Dutch Pavilion, World Exposition, Osaka, Japan, 1970
(Van den Broek/Bakema)
God, I’m a total sucker for a cross-section or architectural diagram.
Duchenne discovered that the tightening of the eye muscles lay outside of voluntary control, and was “only put into play by the sweet emotions of the soul”.
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The truth about lying and laughing | Science | The Guardian
Lovely quotation about the difference between real and fake smiles, from the mid-1800s.
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