You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
P. J. O'Rourke
Recitation: by Male by Female
The letters I really love are from young actresses who were worried they had to fit a certain look. They say I've opened it up. And I don't just mean plus-size girls. You can push things now. With all the great performances in 'Bridesmaids', it changed how people see funny women.
Melissa McCarthy
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I grew up mainly in the Far East, where my father worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which was then a small, well-run colonial institution and not the global colossus it is today.
John Lanchester
FatherTodaySmallBankHong Kong
I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.
Ann Romney
JobI AmVillageGranddaughterFirst
The truth of the matter is roles like James Bond are the ones that I look up to as probably the best roles ever to play. So that's probably my ultimate goal one day: to play James Bond.
Luke Evans
TruthBestDayBondLookGoal
There have been a couple specific instances where I've felt like I couldn't survive without interacting with a certain person. I've been involved with some pretty manipulative people who have told me the same thought: that I can't live without them.
Lucy Dacus
LivePeopleMeSurviveThoughtSame
I never loved the world around me as it was.
Christian Lacroix
MeWorldLovedNeverAround
Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.
Colin Powell
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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
William Penn
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To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
Sheri S. Tepper
ScienceMeIdeasYouEscapeKind
There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.
Sean Bean
FutureLiteratureYouWealthFind
We did something this year that was not based on animosity.
Nikki Sixx
YearSomethingDidAnimosityBased
I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.
Richard E. Grant
BestPeopleGameFeelYouWorking
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