Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
Recitation: by Male by Female
Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less and less polite, which doesn't seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.
Jim McKelvey
MoneyPeopleAngelYearWantSeem
I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes on in the world affects us, unequivocally.
Jennifer Gilmore
WorldThinkFeelPersonalWayMore
Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It can be interesting - if you have another outlet.
John Gregory Dunne
WorkNatureInterestingYouNothing
It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
Matt Damon
FakeBetterNobodyRealSomebody
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.
Stanley Hauerwas
AgeHistoryTrustI AmEnoughJust
If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.
Steven Yeun
WorkJobHappyYouChicagoImprov
We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.
Roger Mahony
CommunityHealingLookingSeeingUs
I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.
Roz Chast
PeopleShoppingFightingFeelGo
I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.
Mila Kunis
LifeLearningEatingEnjoyLiving
There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.
Mike Birbiglia
PeopleAmazingSmallYouLoseGain
I'm pretty omnivorous - in fact, I don't think of books in terms of genres. J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books are no more Y.A. reading, to me, than John le Carre's 'Smiley' novels are spy stories.
Michiko Kakutani
MeReadingThinkMoreSpyPretty
We will not continue to be in the post-'79 era. That age is over.
Mohammad bin Salman
AgeWillOverContinueEra
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