Quotes about "Politics & Government"

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history. ”

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious. ”

For its speculations to be taken seriously, dystopian fiction must be part of a discussion of contemporary society, a projection of ongoing political failures perhaps, or the wringing of present jeopardy for future disaster. ”

In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political. ”

I had been overexposed in a particular way because my marriage to an extremely successful older man meant I was involved in his public life as well as my own. ”

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue. ”

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. ”

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes. ”

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. ”

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing. ”