I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.
David Dewhurst
Recitation: by Male by Female
My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.
Mem Fox
MotherMyselfWomanThoughtSheGet
People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.
Trombone Shorty
MusicPeopleNewNothingUpGet
Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.
Tracy Kidder
NewThingsLikeNew EnglandEngland
What's fascinating about doing comedy about the referendum is, because it is the first time, it is the most extraordinary atmosphere. You find that if you are making jokes about politicians, it becomes intensely political.
Rory Bremner
TimePoliticalComedyDoingYou
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens... I adopted them passionately.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
MeWorldLovedLiteratureMy OwnUp
I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.
Jason Statham
LoveGoodHumorPeopleStoryTell
On 'The Chase,' I don't know what questions are going to appear, so they deliberately try and catch me out.
Bradley Walsh
MeQuestionsKnowTryOutGoing
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
Arthur Erickson
ArtTreatLuxuryEasyWithoutUs
I'm not entirely sure why I write about family, but I do know that it hasn't stopped interesting me. You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are constant links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads.
Antonya Nelson
LifeFamilyTimePeopleMeYou
Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.
Atul Gawande
HealthGreatAmericanSystemCost
No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.
Twyla Tharp
HopeBestPeopleThinkingArtist
To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.
Marshall Curry
MeStrongViewInterestingUpTake
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