I'm a gay, undocumented immigrant; I have to be optimistic.
Jose Antonio Vargas
Recitation: by Male by Female
You just have to say over and over again: 'I am a director.' Nobody gives it to you. Nobody anoints you.
Jill Soloway
I AmYouNobodySayDirectorOver
I'm a public servant. And I work for the American people.
John Fleming
WorkPeopleAmericanServantPublic
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
John Updike
WallsDoorChoicesDoorsKnowRight
I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!
Romeo Miller
PoolEverythingGadgetsLikeCover
I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought them. At 40, I sometimes go simply for the pleasure, of seeing what is new, of learning what counts as beautiful now.
Rumaan Alam
LifeLearningBeautifulMy LifeNew
I've always thought that jazz needs to be heard by a wider audience in Puerto Rico. I want to put together a series of free concerts in the small towns - one with Miles Davis music, another with bebop, maybe Duke Ellington. I want younger people to see what is possible.
Miguel Zenon
MusicTogetherPeopleSmallThought
The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.
Joseph Brodsky
BookSameWriterBurning
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes
EducationYouthFoundationState
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
Jonathan Demme
WarProfitOutThroughJustIdea
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Don Marquis
YouWrongGetPoliticianIdeaHe
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
David Shields
ScienceArtMeBooksLikeAdvancing
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.
Annie Baker
CollegeMeWritingStartLovedFeel
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