My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
Dolly Parton
Recitation: by Male by Female
I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.
Robert Jarvik
FatherHeartDieTryingHimGoing
I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
John Wells
FamilyPowerHumorSomeoneKindUp
When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.
John Woo
TeamHardTwoAudienceUpFilm
I'm a Latina from Miami. I pity you if you think you're going out-shout me.
Ana Navarro
MeThinkMiamiYouLatinaGoing
So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
Steve Irwin
FearMistakesMeMaking MistakesLot
The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?
Stephen Wolfram
ScienceProgressMeWorldBuilding
I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.
Shonda Rhimes
TimeMyselfThinkThoughtAnything
For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense.
Tracy K. Smith
MotherDeathChildGrowing UpThink
Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.
Tom Stoppard
LoveExperienceDancePinkDownUp
You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.
Mike Leigh
CameraLongYouFindKnowWill
'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.
Josh Gondelman
MeIntellectualFirstFalseBig
We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
SupportTaxWayPermanentWorking
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