My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
Questlove
Recitation: by Male by Female
You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer.
Jill Paton Walsh
PersonalityMeBelieveYouMade
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
John Cleese
CreativeThinkFeelWantAnswer
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Robert Southey
GoodGodManYoungYoung ManVain
I think I would probably have been a good mother.
Ann Patchett
GoodMotherThinkBeenGood Mother
Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and 'think pieces' about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can.
Roxane Gay
ThinkEventsAlwaysPiecesComment
Federal spending is atrocious.
Jason Chaffetz
FederalSpendingFederal Spending
Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.
Drew Bledsoe
BestWinePossibleLong-TermOur
I'm human, and I make mistakes.
Draymond Green
MistakesHumanMake
My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books.
Christopher Fowler
HomeReadingFriendsStreetUnwanted
Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.
Anne Michaels
MomentLanguageWayBendAlways
I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.
Aunjanue Ellis
ManBlackThinkMake A Difference
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Plato
GoodRepeatingHarmA Good Thing
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