I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
Glenn Close
Recitation: by Male by Female
When I started writing 'Batman,' I lobbied heavily to get rid of Robin - or at least not use him in the stories I wrote. Fighting crime with a teenager dressed in primary colors while you're sporting a gray-and-black outfit always struck me as child endangerment, if not abuse.
Jim Starlin
ChildMeColorsWritingFighting
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Jessamyn West
CommunicationIgnoranceAliveYoung
Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
John Knoll
GoodEthicsArtistBadToolUsed
I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.
Michael Connelly
MeSuitsYearSometimesWriteTwo
My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
GoodTimeMeLaughTimingBoy
When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.
Ruchi Sanghvi
MeImmigrationLongImmigrantsThree
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
WayAfraidBeingOnlyBeing Afraid
I have six children, and we neglect our older ones more. Because we were so busy trying to make a living, we just say hello and goodbye... I'm sure those things stick with you.
Jason Robards
ChildrenGoodbyeBusyTryingYou
I had been working on this series called 'Everything Dies,' and it was basically me doing non-fiction essays, responding to religion and stuff like that, and I really got into this ideas of telling factual stories via comics.
Box Brown
ReligionMeIdeasDoingEverything
McCain is completely against the sequester. It was one thing when we had a Democratic chair who was against it - all the Democrats were against it. But to have a Republican chair who is outspoken and strong against the sequester, who has the credentials in military issues - who is going to challenge him?
Tim Kaine
ChallengeStrongChairMilitaryHim
I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.
Muqtada al Sadr
YouNothingBecomePaperResortBeg
And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.
Martin Feldstein
GoodScienceArtProblemsFinancial
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