My mother taught me how to write.
Kesha
Recitation: by Male by Female
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
John B. S. Haldane
SuccessFailureEnvironmentKnowTwo
English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
John Cleese
WorldBadTelevisionNowEnglish
The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.
John Henrik Clarke
PeopleWorldFaceEarlyPlaceEarth
A good record is one where I can tap my toes. I always say let your feet do the thinking.
Angus Young
GoodFeetThinkingI CanSayAlways
Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.
Ann Aguirre
WomenMenTwoWomen AreDistress
Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.
Ana Patricia Botin
WordsCompetitionWealthDirty
The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.
Steven Price
MusicAmazingMeDoorWorldMeaning
You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself.
Tom Welling
GoodGreatYourselfPictureActing
Every Monday night, there was a scary movie on Spanish TV, so my parents used to send me to bed. I remember lying there, listening to the TV, and imagining the movie in my head. And so probably the scariest movies I ever saw in my life were the ones I imagined.
Juan Antonio Bayona
LifeMondayParentsMeListening
If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.
Jose Padilha
ScienceBridgeStartYouCreateTwo
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.
Jonathan Kozol
TodayHopeTeacherNew YorkChild
There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.
Jonathan Tropper
YouSomethingCreatedSatisfying
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