Rafael Yglesias Quotes

Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

Rafael Yglesias

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It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

Ann Romney

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I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.

John Updike

AmbitionFirstMagazineWantedThen

I remember doing a little student film where we had a guy that couldn't pull focus. We ended up spending three times the amount of time shooting this thing as opposed to if the guy could've just pulled focus.

Stephen Amell

TimeFocusDoingRememberStudent

When you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat and all these twentysomething billionaires, it's really kind of fascinating; a classic tale of the haves and have-nots.

Steven Bochco

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Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the Great or Jerusalem, I spend endless hours doing vast amounts of research. But it ends up being based on the same principle as all writing about people: and that is curiosity!

Simon Sebag Montefiore

LoveHistoryGreatPeopleResearch

Becoming that guy who does one thing is not very interesting. I'm lucky and proud to have been involved in period films and action films.

Rupert Friend

ActionProudInterestingLuckyGuy

I always like to play. I cannot sit down and see what's going to happen, because it's boring.

Miguel Cabrera

DownPlayBoringAlwaysSeeHappen

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

Chris Tucker

CharacterHurtComedyBadSituation

'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.

Bobby Flay

GreatFoodMoneyNew YorkAttention

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

Phyllis Schlafly

ChildSexismRuleCustodyHowever

If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.

Phil Collins

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