There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
Conan O'Brien
Recitation: by Male by Female
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
Jerry Saltz
AgePaintingYouthArtistNowTiny
Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to listen to if you're gay... What are you supposed to look like? What's your body supposed to look like?
John Cameron Mitchell
MusicAcceptanceMediocrityYouLook
I really try my best not to get attached to a script, because I know what it takes: It takes you away from your family and what you like to do.
Jeff Bridges
FamilyBestYouKnowTryGet
Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May.
Michael Dirda
TimeReadingStoryDeepYearApril
If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.
Steve Carell
SuccessGreatEarlyLevelComplete
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.
Rowan Atkinson
GoodJobYouSayNeedExplain
My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.
Mona Simpson
MotherParentSpeechTeachTalkHer
I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see less of the fantasy 'Indian' self I inherited from my father, and I see my mother looking back at me.
Diana Quick
LifeLoveFatherMotherDressMe
My first season of 'MasterChef' was tricky. I took a risk going into TV. I was confident it was the right risk and confident I'd break down barriers as the first female judge - and one that was previously only known for the sweeter side of the kitchen.
Christina Tosi
KitchenConfidentJudgeDownRight
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
Art Linkletter
BestYourselfReligionPeopleTreat
I'm a mammal at the end. I breathe out and breathe in and eat. At the end, when we go to sleep, nobody lives this political definition. It's something we connect by and we try to understand each other by, but at the end, we know that this is not who we are.
Ashraf Barhom
SleepEndPoliticalNobodyGoKnow
I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
Mario Batali
ForgivenessEyesLongevityHappen
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