I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.
Jane Hamilton
Recitation: by Male by Female
There are certain families who absolutely incorporate their nanny as part of the family, and there are other people, and there are codes for this, when they call in, they say, 'I am really not looking for a friend.' It is clear they will not be members of the family.
Robert Klein
FamilyFriendI AmPeopleLooking
For some reason, the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people.
Robert Osborne
LoveBestPeopleKnowMoviesWhy
My favourite actors have always been the character actors.
Matthew Gray Gubler
CharacterAlwaysBeenFavourite
I think a lot of people can relate to that school is pretty lousy for a lot of people, and it just shows that you don't have to be perfect and you can still be a hero.
Matthew Lewis
HeroSchoolPeopleThinkYouPretty
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.
Matthew Simpson
LifeThingsAgainstUsPractical
Radical Islamic jihadists have a long-term vision. And if they have to stay in Europe to obtain a citizenship, to ultimately travel to the United States, and if it takes them five years or ten years, they're okay with that. History has proven that.
Jeff Duncan
VisionHistoryTravelCitizenship
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.
Tom Hanks
WarParentsGrowing UpYouEarthUp
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
Robert Bork
NatureManIdeasConstitutionJudges
I didn't wait around for my parents' opinion about my venture out into contemporary music.
Lizz Wright
MusicParentsWaitOpinionOut
You are born with a voice. And in a way, you don't choose what you want to sing. It's the quality of your voice that matches a certain repertoire, and that's what you're going to sing.
Juan Diego Florez
QualityVoiceYouChooseBornWant
These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.
Jose Canseco
StrengthImpossibleYouCareerEdge
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
Christopher Hitchens
FaithExperienceVintageChooseOver
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