Tomi Adeyemi Quotes

There's so much talk of representation in politics and entertainment - it's everywhere - but I didn't realize representation was important until really my senior year of high school.

Tomi Adeyemi

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PoliticsSchoolHigh SchoolYear

My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.

John Harsanyi

MathematicsChildParentsMeLiving

Under Todd Haimes' leadership, Roundabout created a black-box theater whose sole mission was to house premieres by writers who are just starting out and have zero name recognition.

Stephen Karam

LeadershipNameRecognitionMission

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.

Stacy Schiff

ChildrenTimeChildhoodThreeOffice

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

Steven Spielberg

WrongProductionMostAbout

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

Tris Speaker

BaseballBabyYouToysOthersUp

Of course, you can't teach songwriting. You can only encourage people to do it and help them to sort out for themselves what they want to achieve, and get a list of exercises together that improves the craft and gives them more access to the craft of writing good songs.

Rodney Crowell

GoodTogetherPeopleWritingHelp

I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.

Michelle Hunziker

MenWomanWeekTwoYearsFour

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

PeopleAmbitionViceLittle

I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.

Michael Phelps

WorldGoWantCupWorld CupMasters

Anticipating a boomerang child seems the odds-on thing to do. Think about furnishing - hello, sleeper sofa - with this in mind.

Jean Chatzky

ChildMindThinkHelloSeemsSofa

If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.

Seth Grahame-Smith

WorkChallengeInterestingImagine

I am happy. I have a wonderful marriage. I was in a not-great second marriage for 20 years, then I fell in love with Steve, my first husband, again, and we remarried. I wore the dress from our first wedding in 1982 - it was tight, but I could get into it.

Marie Osmond

LoveMarriageI AmDressHappy

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