Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me.
Michael Connelly
Recitation: by Male by Female
An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.
John Battelle
HomeChildNightLongLatePhone
Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture.
Steve Stoute
BusinessMusicHistoryCultureLost
I'm always getting texts asking why I'm not responding on Instagram or Facebook, and I'm like, 'It's not me. You're writing to some stranger.'
Travis Fimmel
MeWritingYouWhyAlwaysAsking
I think poems belong as much in the news pages as the literary pages. A lot of people throw aside the literary pages! Whereas everybody looks at the news section.
Tony Harrison
PeopleThinkLooksNewsBelongMuch
At 16, I got into local-education archaeology classes - you got to go to summer digs. It allowed me to be both intellectual and a bad girl with a wicked social life every evening!
Mary Beard
LifeGirlMeEveningYouBad
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Michael Shermer
MotivationMeaningMoralityTrue
I can't assume that my kid is going to make the best decision all the time.
Jason Bateman
TimeDecisionBestKidAssumeGoing
We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.
Chris Adami
LifeOrderComputerConstructTakes
Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I'll never quit working in the theater - until I can't memorize two lines back to back.
Brian Dennehy
TimeMeLearnBackQuitNever
I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.
Chrystia Freeland
OpportunityEqualityValuesSee
Instead of picking your career and backfilling your life behind that, what if you pick your life and backfill your career with whatever is left over?
Bob Goff
LifeYouCareerWhat IfOverLeft
The idea was always going to be that each year is a stand-alone story, which did make it easier on some level. It also requires the network to have the creative imagination to say, 'This is also 'Fargo,' you know what I mean?
Noah Hawley
ImaginationCreativeStoryYearYou
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