I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.
Poppy Z. Brite
Recitation: by Male by Female
When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.
Jim Evans
MeNightSummerTryMoreUp
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
Jim Bishop
TeenNobodyWhoThoseIncluding
I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.
Joan Didion
ChildWayNeverEngageInterestHad
I learnt a lot about how to negotiate the camera: everyone had told me an actor doesn't really need to do anything on screen, but I realised that wasn't true. If you do nothing, it's boring.
Stephen Mangan
MeCameraYouTrueBoringNothing
I really like walking for brands where I like the clothes, because it's a big part of the whole thing.
Stella Maxwell
WalkingClothesBigWhereWhole
If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?
Summer Altice
EyeYouLookInsideOpenSee
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud
ViolenceIndividualActWouldState
Before I left home for drama school in England, my father took me outside one night and told me that wherever I was, the moon would shine on both of us. Months later, walking in London, I'd look at the moon and feel his love. Now I've shared the ritual with my own kids.
Roma Downey
LoveFatherHomeSchoolMoonShine
The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'
Joshua Foer
BestMemoryWorldCardsEuropeMark
It's tough to say where I live. There are some bills that get to the house in L.A., some to the house in Mexico, and some to the house of my father - so I never lose track of those.
Diego Luna
FatherLiveToughLoseHouseSay
Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.
Deborah Eisenberg
ChangeGoodWritingYouSayWrite
The number of African Americans in Silicon Valley is dismal. It's not up to one company - it's up to the entire industry to make sure that we are moving the conversation forward. Sometimes those walls of competition need to come down so we can move the entire industry forward.
Bozoma Saint John
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