I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
Ben Mendelsohn
Recitation: by Male by Female
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.
Maya Angelou
ManPoetryMeLovedStreetJournal
I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky.
Jeff Kinney
GoodBestQualityCollegeWorldTry
I want women to learn to find themselves.
Sonia Rykiel
WomenLearnFindWantThemselves
The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money.
Robert Byrd
MoneyAmericanSecurityWillOut
I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.
Robin Thicke
MyselfEqualityWorldTryingCreate
My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.
Michaela Watkins
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The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.
Jason Clarke
BusinessPeopleResearchTryingYou
I think you're going to see an interest in space tourism, space travel for the sake of travel.
Dennis Muilenburg
TravelSpaceThinkYouSeeGoing
Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and the worst disaster at sea in United States naval history. I go down to the lake, and I wonder: How would I have survived what they experienced?
Doug Stanton
SeaHistoryMenWarWorldThink
The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
Anthony Braxton
MusicWayTalkInterestedLimitation
I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.
Tom Berenger
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I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
Lev Grossman
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