I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.
Margaret AtwoodOppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
Margaret AtwoodEven in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools. He puts in certain middle-range characters. And when you go to the Globe, you realize how that all works. The people who paid more sat in seats around the edge. Everybody else paid a penny. They put it into a tin box - that's why we call it the "box office." They stood in the pit, but they were very close, so when Hamlet was doing his soliloquy, it was addressed to you, the audience - right there.
Margaret Atwood