The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Orson Welles
Recitation: by Male by Female
It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
Jeffrey Kluger
LifeFamilyGoodSonDaughterRules
I kind of - I like my life; I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had such high expectations for me - I would say it's the greatest gift that anyone has ever given me. I complained a lot when I was little, but that's how I feel now. And that's why I tried to do the same with my two daughters.
Amy Chua
LifeParentsMeGiftOpportunities
We need to make sure that we're not in a society that is unbalanced and unfair and where the richest Americans are taking advantage of everybody else.
Tom Steyer
SocietyUnfairNeedWhereSureMake
During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson.
Robert Dallek
FamilyElectionGroupPaidSons
The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.
Rocco Buttiglione
ReligionNewAtheistSoftLeft
The hybrid engine costs a lot of money, and customers are hardly willing to spend so much more for a car.
Martin Winterkorn
CarMoneyMoreEngineCustomers
Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that's what does it for me.
Mo Farah
LoveBrokenPeopleMeWorldMedals
For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.
Loretta Devine
CharacterTimeConsistencyBookTry
What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.
Jonah Lehrer
TimePerspectiveCreativityCreative
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
China Mieville
ProfessionalNeverBeenWriterUntil
I know when I was little, having my Thai mom, even I was weird about fish sauce and fish heads and clams. I kind of sided with my dad because he was a big American guy. So, we were very meat and potatoes, but I really wish I had grown up appreciating my mom's taste a bit more.
Chrissy Teigen
MomWeirdAmericanFishWishKnow
When you look at every government, they're our elected officials, and you have to have some form of respect for them.
Brian Littrell
RespectGovernmentYouLookSome
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