The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin
Recitation: by Male by Female
In terms of people who we call heroes - and I don't tend to like that term, and firefighters don't consider themselves heroes - but if you look at their job description, they are. Their job is to straight up save people.
Jesse Spencer
JobPeopleYouLookFirefightersUp
You often hear when you talk to guys in our industry, that this is my personality, I just turn the volume up, but over the years, I've really become me. No volume turned up, no nothing. I've been able to go out there and just be myself. It's through solid performance after solid performance that people just take you for who you are.
John Cena
MyselfPersonalityPeopleMeYouGo
The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.
John O. Brennan
RiskTakeCannotJust OneJust
People have the right to say what they want to.
John Mellencamp
PeopleSayWantRight
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
Cory Booker
CommunityHistoryGreatNationBeen
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
Boyle Roche
SkyWillSmellRatAirSee
If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.
Ariana Grande
SchoolPeopleSorryThoughtFeel
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
Richard L. Evans
ChildrenRememberYouMaterial Things
A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.
Maria Monk
SchoolCharitySometimesAcquaintance
The thrill of a photo-realist painter is if you get really close to the painting, it looks just like a photograph. Whereas in my case, if you get close to my paintings, they totally fall apart - so I'm about as far from a photo-realist as it gets.
Marilyn Minter
PaintingYouFallLooksPhotograph
You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.
Marianne Elliott
YourselfThinkViewYouNeedSee
Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.
Julian Bond
PeopleMePersonNewsDetroitSame
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