Anne-Marie Slaughter Quotes

The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

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AchievementPrideMeaningValues

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

John C. Reilly

LifeCharacterTruthTimeExperience

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

Melissa McCarthy

WorkThinkBackI CanGoWood

I didn't know the technical language of filmmaking, so I said, 'OK, I'm going to do my own storyboard,' because I had to explain to the crew and the technical people what I wanted.

Robert Redford

PeopleLanguageFilmmakingKnowSaid

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

Matthew Sweet

TimeThreeWantMy OwnQuestionOut

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

Amish Tripathi

CultureEffortAliveDNAConnect

We don't teach our children how to dream.

Stephen LaBerge

ChildrenDreamTeachOurHow

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Robert Bloch

HeartChildKeepJarShelf

My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn't live long enough to party with Dennis Rodman.

Rob Lowe

LiveRegretEnoughLongPartyHe

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

Ruth Ozeki

RelationshipWayOthersOutBetween

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

Mary Doria Russell

FamilyPoetryCityStudyingLovely

My first sex scene - and it was with myself.

Judge Reinhold

MyselfSexFirstScene

By the time most people file for bankruptcy, their credit is already trashed, they have a high debt-to-income ratio - a key indicator lenders look at - and they've likely defaulted on more than a few accounts.

Jean Chatzky

TimePeopleKeyCreditLookHigh

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