People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.
Stephen Rea
Recitation: by Male by Female
History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, 'What? Why?' We - the parents of black children, the parents of all children - still need to tell that story.
Rumaan Alam
ChildrenHistoryParentsSlaveryWhy
I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
WomenTechnologyThinkPossible
I'm fit, but I need to get even more fit to compete with these guys every week.
Denis Shapovalov
WeekMoreNeedCompeteGetEven
My daughters are in kindergarten and second grade, so many of the stories they tell, write, or illustrate are about each other and our dog, Buster.
Doreen Cronin
DogWriteKindergartenTellSecond
In community work, you reach some people, but in writing, I can reach many more people, not only in exploring issues of domestic violence, but also by showing the importance of strong women in communities.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
WorkWomenCommunityPeopleWriting
I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.
Brian Dietzen
HeartRespectAdviceHimOutTake
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the 'China thing.'
Arne Glimcher
PassionPathArtAmericanArtist
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
LoveLovedBetterLostNeverThan
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Phyllis McGinley
ChildrenGreatIntelligenceCreation
I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'
Sean Spicer
TruthJobPeopleFactsMediaBecome
I'm so weak at saying no.
Richard Burton
SayingWeak
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
Rem Koolhaas
WorkEffortOfficeAlmostOurMuch
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