Cory Booker Quotes

My story starts with my dad, a black boy born to a single mother in a small town in North Carolina. It starts with my parents meeting in Washington, D.C., in the '60s, at a time of incredible activism.

Cory Booker

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MotherTimeParentsSmallStory

Second only to a viable approach to acting, the most important thing an actor can find is a creative family. To have a solid core group of people that you take that journey with together is invaluable.

Jim Parrack

FamilyJourneyTogetherCreativeYou

In superficial terms, to have an orchestral career is to be better than others, or at least to be chosen over others on that particular occasion; it is a form of survival.

Stephen Hough

BetterSurvivalCareerOthersOver

I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.

Tracey Gold

AnorexiaExperiencedHadTabloids

Faultless to a fault.

Robert Browning

Fault

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

Miranda Otto

WorkThinkThinkingBackWhyOut

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

Jonathan Krohn

PoliticsCoolUsNerdsJustAlmost

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Drew Barrymore

WomenGirlMeMomMakeupChair

Knowing what you want is not a shortcoming. Let people deal with their own anxieties.

Dee Rees

PeopleYouWantKnowingOwnDeal

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.

Chris O'Dowd

TimeDoubtActingKnowWantWhy

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

Chris Robinson

WisdomYouUpThingsDynamicGet

Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.

Bong Joon-ho

LiveSchoolCityEndVillageLived

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

Susan Orlean

TimeMeImpossiblePictureFindTry

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