27 5 / 2013
Meryl Streep at her daughter, Louisa Gummer’s graduation at Vassar College, 26 May 2013
(Source: mrsstreep, via kissmepetruchio)
20 5 / 2013
"I always wanted a happy ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment, and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
19 5 / 2013
I can’t believe they actually let Nicki do that on live TV. I mean I love her and all but holy crap.
19 5 / 2013
linkdumplings: In terms of the SNL universe, Stefon and Seth’s sendoff was emotional...
In terms of the SNL universe, Stefon and Seth’s sendoff was emotional because Stefon finally got what he wanted.
But really, it was emotional because it was like seeing two friends say goodbye to each other. Sure, Bill and Seth can always talk to each other after the show’s over, and Seth’s…
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15 4 / 2013
These words are stuck in my head tonight:
The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight. They’re our students and our teachers and our parents and our friends. The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels, but every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we’re reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars.
The West Wing. 20 Hours in America.
Relevant.
08 4 / 2013
Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics. It is hard to imagine a part of our current history that has not been affected by measures she put forward in the UK at the end of the 20th century. Her hard-nosed fiscal measures took a toll on the poor, and her hands-off approach to financial regulation led to great wealth for others. There is an argument that her steadfast, almost emotional loyalty to the pound sterling has helped the UK weather the storms of European monetary uncertainty.
But to me she was a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit. To have come up, legitimately, through the ranks of the British political system, class bound and gender phobic as it was, in the time that she did and the way that she did, was a formidable achievement. To have won it, not because she inherited position as the daughter of a great man, or the widow of an important man, but by dint of her own striving. To have withstood the special hatred and ridicule, unprecedented in my opinion, leveled in our time at a public figure who was not a mass murderer; and to have managed to keep her convictions attached to fervent ideals and ideas—wrongheaded or misguided as we might see them now—without corruption—I see that as evidence of some kind of greatness, worthy for the argument of history to settle.
I was honored to try to imagine her late life journey, after power; but I have only a glancing understanding of what her many struggles were, and how she managed to sail through to the other side. I wish to convey my respectful condolences to her family and many friends.- Meryl Streep
(Source: meryl-streep)
07 4 / 2013
