We all exercise agency in the choices we make.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Recitation: by Male by Female
I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are giving feedback, they say, 'This is unbelievable.' And the writer says, 'Well, actually, the events are based in real life. This actually happened.'
Jesmyn Ward
LifeWritingStoryGivingSomeone
Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about.
Jessica Lange
LifeChildrenTimeSpaceAttention
For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.
Robert Lepage
MeTraditionAliveWillAlwaysMuch
I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.
Matt Cameron
LoveGreatDownDrummerWayDrum
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
Anita Brookner
FreedomTimeTeenYouthSometimes
There's a reason why I use film. It's because it's the best representation of how our eyes work. I really believe that. I think it's better than digital.
Jeff Nichols
WorkEyesBestBelieveThinkBetter
More or less, I am always saying, 'Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.'
Jean-Luc Godard
I AmMeSayingDoneMoreAlways
When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I could reform the New York City school system. After two or three years, four years, I became an advocate of choice, of scholarships, and vouchers, and parental choice, because I thought that was the only way to really change the school system.
Rudy Giuliani
ChangeSchoolNew YorkCityThinking
I feel very, very thankful to have the family that I do.
Matt Bomer
FamilyThankfulFeelI FeelVery
Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.
Michelle Alexander
CommunityBlackDownCrimeNation
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
Christopher Hitchens
LiveTimePeopleWishStatistics
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
Anne Lamott
ChildrenHistoryTimeHumorEarth
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