I'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream.
Amy Chua
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.
John McGahern
WorldThinkOthersDifferenceSee
The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I was.
Angelica Ross
ArtWomanMeCallDragFemale
It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.
Michael Eric Dyson
BlackHurtEnoughBadWhiteYoung
I think the greatest demand actually comes from within, not from outside.
Steve Easterbrook
ThinkOutsideWithinGreatestDemand
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Sophocles
ManSameAlwaysPleasureTake
I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.
Robert Winston
LifeChildrenBelieveEggYouHuman
The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not simply just about systems; it's an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering.
Mike White
PeopleSufferingMeCrazyDrive
Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.
Michael Korda
FatherDetailFamousDesignBecome
I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it. I never saw it as a career. At around 16, I knew what I wanted to do.
Luke Pasqualino
CareerDramaYoungNeverSawKnew
We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.
Josefina Vazquez Mota
PathPracticeCorruptionPartyWorst
My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!
Jonathan Stroud
MoneyWifeMeWritingStartYear
You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.
Dougray Scott
ImaginationStoryThinkHellYouUp
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