I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.
Norman Spinrad
Recitation: by Male by Female
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
Jez Butterworth
TimeLooking BackLookingBackBeen
My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.
Joan Cusack
MotherCharacterJobI AmFaceNow
Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.
Andrew Oliver
BusinessPeopleGameDevelopmentDid
A lot of people have sought to place me in the position as the leader of the anti-Trump movement. That is not something that I have aspired to. It's not something that I've requested.
Michael Avenatti
LeaderPeopleMePlaceMovementLot
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.
Sufjan Stevens
LifeBestConflictObstaclesLearn
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
Tom Chatfield
TimePresenceSomethingUnderstood
I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.
Rob Brydon
LifeMoreOutlookDepressedProne
If you go out once a week, they can blast on you that you're always out all the time, but I always put work first, and people sometimes don't see the side of going into the weight room, behind-the-scenes-type stuff with football.
Rob Gronkowski
WorkTimeFootballPeopleWeekYou
Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.
Ronnie Hawkins
WarBackRockTwoBeingRoll
I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.
Jonathan Safran Foer
WriteNeedAlwaysOutSomething
I've always believed consumers have a right to know what's in their food.
Denise Morrison
FoodKnowRightAlwaysConsumers
It was my first day at work - and beginning my training on the job, I was given the job of writing cheques and entering their details. The branch was surrounded by hordes of people... soon, they had to close the gates to manage the crowds, and they started pushing in.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
WorkDayJobBeginningTraining
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