The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.
Kinky Friedman
Recitation: by Male by Female
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball, and lying under my covers with a flashlight.
Amy Bloom
BrokenCoolGlassesPinkLibrary
One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.
Stephen Covey
PeopleIndiaThingsAboutAdmired
Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.
Simon Beaufoy
LifePeopleOvercomeNeedEveryone
I do voicework all the time.
Ron Perlman
Time
People are so used to eating terrible pancakes, no matter how you mess up, they're going to be great. And if you make fresh orange juice, they'll be over the moon.
Ruth Reichl
GreatPeopleMoonEatingYouOrange
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
Roy Lichtenstein
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I have female friends who work in all different mediums who I speak to at least once a week. It helps me so much to know that I'm not alone. I think that's the bare minimum you need to sustain yourself - some sort of context of other women making things.
Miranda July
WorkWomenAloneYourselfMeThink
I see 'Grace' as an affectionate refusal of things that just aren't true. With all our power and money and influence, we still can't raise up high over people's consciousness.
Lizz Wright
PowerMoneyPeopleGraceInfluence
Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long.
Javier Bardem
SolutionLongYouSituationNeed
I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem ultra-contemporary actually take their place in a long American continuum.
Jonathan Dee
LifeI AmAmericanLongPlaceSeem
I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
Dirk Nowitzki
BasketballNothingBasketball Player
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.
Derek Jacobi
LiveKnowledgePeopleYouPlayUp
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