Aktion / Action Benutzen / Use Gebraucht / Used Geschichte / History Gut / Well Intellektuell / Intellectual Intellektuelles Leben / Intellectual Life Könnte / Might Leben / Life Mögen / Like Nichts / Nothing Praktisch / Practical Sie / You Tot / Dead Zeug / Stuff
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.
If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that's because it's true.
Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience.
There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
