A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
Walter Salles
Recitation: by Male by Female
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
Andrew Young
SlaveryBlackRulesUpBreakMuch
I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.
Melissa McCarthy
LoveQueenMeLove MeMoreOwn
When I did 'Jerry Springer: The Opera,' there was a big fuss, largely centered around the misrepresentation of its content. Had Twitter existed then, that would have been over in a week because people who had actually seen it would have been able to get control of the story through social media.
Stewart Lee
Social MediaPeopleControlStory
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.
Tony Hsieh
BusinessShipYouGoCruiseTurn
As an actor, you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me. I've always kept the focus on my work.
Michelle Fairley
LifeWorkFocusPeopleMeChoose
Sometimes, I think I have the best job in the world.
Louis Susman
BestJobWorldThinkSometimes
I was pretty obnoxious as a kid.
Lorelei Linklater
KidPrettyObnoxious
Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.
Jason Mraz
WorkMarriageEqualityWorldDeep
When you're dealing with African Americans, family is everything. Because we spend so much time talking about how one treats one's family. Telling a black person that you haven't talked to your mother in a week is probably different than it is with other races because people will look at you different.
Cheo Hodari Coker
FamilyMotherTimePeopleBlackYou
Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.
Clay Shirky
FunProblemJournalismGuyJust
A full mind is an empty bat.
Branch Rickey
MindEmptyBatFull
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
Annie Leibovitz
EnvironmentalYouChoiceLensMore
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