I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.
Francis Ford Coppola
Recitation: by Male by Female
I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too.
Jessy Schram
GreatCityLovedChicagoBecause
My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.
Jessica Valenti
WorkMarriageMotherTogetherLoss
When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.
Joe Torre
OpportunityHistoryGreatNew York
Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.
Stanley Schmidt
ThinkWayHardWhateverOwnThings
As an actor, you always want to root for your characters.
Simon Helberg
YouWantActorAlwaysYourRoot
The people you can't stand can actually transform your life. And help you become happier, healthier, and more successful.
Robin S. Sharma
LifePeopleStandHelpYouBecome
A waiter at the hotel kept telling me that Cape Town is just like a European city, but it's not like that at all. It doesn't feel safe, and I didn't really go out at night.
Robert Webb
CityMeNightFeelHotelGo
Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.
Lucy Liu
EyesStyleMenFightCoolYou
Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.
Dennis Eckersley
FatherMePersonAthleteLikeKnew
I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.
Denise Mina
GoodYouRulesKnowCrimeRespond
It's very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagine our country without our national parks and our monuments. Here in California, imagine if you didn't have in Southern Cal the Channel Islands or the great Highway 1, Big Sur up to Point Reyes up to the Redwood country.
Douglas Brinkley
GreatYouCountryImportantWild
I'm interested in the lives of Americans for whom the ways this culture has tried to define itself - that is, self-esteem defined by material wealth - they have nothing to do with that.
Debra Granik
CultureWealthNothingSelf-Esteem
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