Everyone needs help from everyone.
Bertolt Brecht
Recitation: by Male by Female
If somebody says, 'That's Elon's mum,' which happens quite a bit, they are usually stunned; sometimes they cry. I'm flattered because, I mean, to them, he's saving the world. They just feel he's the only hope.
Maye Musk
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That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.
Robert Hamer
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Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us.
Stephen Hough
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We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
Sue Grafton
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In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
Mary-Louise Parker
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As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points.
Mike Birbiglia
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My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.
Ashley Madekwe
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What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom. New underwear? I never discovered that until I got into college.
Alice Ripley
CollegeMeBraveNewBathroomNever
I wrote in coffee shops in Japan when I was 22, 23, before I had the stamina to sit down and write. I liked the buzzy environment; I couldn't speak Japanese when I arrived, so it was kind of a white noise. It felt more sociable than being alone, but now, as I've developed a writing practice, I couldn't do it.
Susan Barker
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I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.
Sherman Hemsley
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The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
Lincoln Child
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Use your voice on the local level where it has the potential to be more widely heard.
Kirsten Gillibrand
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