Life is accepting what is and working from that.
Gloria Naylor
Recitation: by Male by Female
The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.
Ann Bancroft
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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
Ann Brashares
FreedomWritingWriteOutDifferent
She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.
Michael Arlen
WorstSheOnlyHappensMakes
With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.
Michael Douglas
LiveTimeRainBlackMagicYou
Don't hide in the dark and let someone else make your boss look like a rock star.
John Rampton
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I went to pick up my nephew from primary school, and one of the teachers there stopped me and said, 'My son listens to you.' That's quite an awkward thing.
Stormzy
SonSchoolMeYouNephewSaid
It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.
Steven Pinker
WordsPeopleBrainSongSpeechLeft
One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.
Bobby Sherman
LoveBirthdayParentsKidDisneyland
I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It's the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.
Apolo Ohno
TimeMeCrazyEnergyTroubleNever
I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor Street in Toronto and saying, 'I'll never take money for my writing!' I had such idealism about this idea of trading your soul for money.
Sheila Heti
FriendMoneySoulMemoryWriting
I've had the great fortune of working with incredible people on many shows.
Rhea Seehorn
GreatPeopleFortuneWorkingMany
If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.
Marion Cotillard
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