Ellen Gustafson Quotes

I was studying International Relations at Columbia when 9/11 happened, and it made me want understand the security dynamics of the world. I had been more focused on soft power issues - understanding different cultures and such - but once 9/11 happened, I felt like I didn't know anything about security problems.

Ellen Gustafson

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PowerMeWorldProblemsSecurity

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

Jimmy Page

BrokenAngelLookingJustWing

Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.

Matthew Desmond

LivingPoorBottomAboveMarket

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

Jean Paul Gaultier

BeautyEyesPeopleYouFindSay

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

Stephen Sondheim

WritingStartYouKnowWayWell

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

Romesh Gunesekera

MeWritingWorldUnderstandingWay

Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities.

Rupert Friend

CharacterI AmPeopleTransformation

What inspired me was the love of making music and having no one around and just saying, 'I've gotta figure this out.'

Russ

LoveMusicMeSayingOutInspired

When you're confined to a hospital bed, there aren't many appointments you can make. You await visits from friends and family members. You enjoy the coconut ice cream they smuggle in. You tolerate the erratic and invasive visits of doctors and nurses, hoping that one of them will bring you closer to going home.

Josh Gondelman

FamilyHomeFriends And FamilyEnjoy

Zombies have always had a lot of built-in social commentary.

Jonathan Levine

AlwaysSocialZombiesHadCommentary

Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter into the seminary in the 1920s.

Anthea Butler

Civil RightsFirst1920sMovement

On 6 October 1973, the Yom Kippur war broke out between a coalition of Arab states and Israel. At 6 A.M. that morning, Kissinger, asleep in the Waldorf, was taken by surprise by the Arab attack - as were the CIA and the rest of the world.

Alistair Horne

MorningWarWorldRestSurpriseOut

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Paul Stanley

MeRock And RollLookFameRockUs

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