In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Theodor W. Adorno
Recitation: by Male by Female
Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
Jim Henson
TimeMeRememberWeekPriceMy Own
In this business, you never say no to anything.
Mercedes Ruehl
BusinessYouSayNeverAnything
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven Brust
ManWaitingAmbitionOld ManYoung
Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any other white person and expects to be seen as such.
Robin DiAngelo
RacismWhitePersonGroupRespond
I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.
Rosalind Wiseman
PositiveGoodChildrenParentsThink
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin
ChildrenParentsLongBecomeUs
Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.
Jason Silva
MusicMomentsYouPerfectMovies
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.
Diane Setterfield
RespectReadingBetterLiterature
You pay a price for everything in life.
Chris Evert
LifeYouPriceEverythingPay
At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.
David Walton
WinterSeriouslyDeadProduction
If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
Anton Corbijn
LovePassionStoryThinkYouFind
Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.
Pierce Brosnan
LifeGoodGreatOptimismThinkSame
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