Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.
Jerry Orbach
New YorkRichThinkChoiceNewMore
I have to strip away all the layers when I'm writing the song. I have to cut through all these layers of years of putting up walls and putting protective layers around myself.
John Grant
MyselfWallsWritingSongYearsUp
To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
John McDonald
SuccessTravelWorldEnjoyLittle
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
Jean Piaget
SimpleFirstDoubleAbstractionCall
To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.
Tom Stoppard
LoveDistinctionHardly
My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal.
Michael Schur
WorkTimeTogetherPeopleWorldYou
Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.
Dinaw Mengestu
WorkMyselfNameFindReturning
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle
LanguageSpeechPersuasionThree
Comedy is actually very macho driven.
Scott Thompson
ComedyDrivenMachoVeryActually
When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when I got a job at Manhattan Theatre Club, I think she saw how passionate I was about it and that I worked really hard - and now she's super supportive.
Nicola Peltz
JobMomTheatreThinkNowManager
The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
Marlee Matlin
InspirationalMindDeafnessEar
Fairness and equality means that what you are never limits who you can be. It means that a young African-American man like my father can start a business with $500 and a dream. It means that a young African-American woman like my mother can walk into European fashion houses with her head held high and be treated with respect.
Linda Johnson Rice
FatherMotherBusinessRespectWalk
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