Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
Claire Tomalin
Recitation: by Male by Female
And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position.
John Sexton
CameraSeeingLookSeeFrameOut
It's like you're waiting on the world to change, but I'm actually living it, because I wonder: If there was a DragCon when I was a child or even a search engine or 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' maybe my father would have been different. Maybe our relationship now wouldn't be different.
Alyssa Edwards
ChangeFatherRelationshipWaiting
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well.
Stephan Pastis
FightEndHouseMadCircusOutside
After the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the shutdown of much of New York City by Sandy in 2012, and now the devastation wrought on Texas by Harvey, the U.S. can and should do better.
Joseph Stiglitz
New YorkCityTexasBetterNewNow
The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.
Jonathan Zittrain
LegalPressureWishWillProtect
We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
Clara Zetkin
WomenSpiritualEconomicsInjustice
The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
Bradley Whitford
CharacterYourselfFeetYouDirty
I often get recognized on the street.
PewDiePie
StreetGetRecognizedOften
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
Pete Hamill
LifePrivate LifeSecretAgreeHe
Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.
Sharon Van Etten
Getting OlderCaringPeopleThink
From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance, and so I stayed an extra year to repeat it. This time, I did splendidly and was admitted to Sheffield University, my first choice because of their excellent Chemistry Department.
Richard J. Roberts
AgeTimeSchoolYearPhysicsChoice
I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.
Mark Burnett
PeopleConversationRealWouldWars
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Claire Tomalin