People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
Rafael dos Anjos
Recitation: by Male by Female
After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more honest about the realities of the community I was writing about.
Jesmyn Ward
CommunityWritingPoliticalEnough
I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll never be an ingenue. You know, that's over. My shot was missed. I take a normal person and make them more of a character. I don't know what that would be called.
Jennifer Coolidge
CharacterI AmMeYouPersonKnow
Over the years, I have really figured out what works for me. It's not about what anyone else is doing. I can't worry about whether I am doing everything that another player is doing, which can be hard sometimes. I have to trust my training and know my body and figure out what will get the best out of me.
Megan Rapinoe
TrustBestTrainingI AmMeWorry
The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.
Melanie Chisholm
FunnyMeMy OwnReflectOwnBeing
Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.
Max Apple
WorkMeYouFindAlwaysBig
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Max Eastman
PeopleSituationStatus QuoStatus
I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.
Stanley Clarke
GreatPastPeopleThinkDoneMore
I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.
Sophie Thompson
SonGreatMomentKingReadingPlant
When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.
Tom Stoppard
LiveWorldYouRewardWayTry
In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.
Rivers Cuomo
LoveMusicHeartPeopleMeSick
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash
ThinkYouRight
When restaurants start to mature - and usually the five-year time is the time when the restaurant starts to settle in and have its own personality - your job is to grow it.
Michael Mina
TimePersonalityJobStartGrowOwn
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