Laura Ricketts Quotes

I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

Laura Ricketts

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Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.

Joel Edgerton

PathDriveLiteratureTryingYouUp

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.

Jeff Garlin

WorkGoodCreativeGood WorkCare

The thing is, I'm never scared. It's just in the blood, really. My family come from a warrior clan background, the Rajput tribe from the Punjab, and that could be one of the reasons. Going into fights just seems normal to me.

Amir Khan

FamilyMeWarriorBloodNeverTribe

I think the way poems are taught to high school students is completely counterintuitive; it sets up this sense of being the poem's adversary. The poem is sort of sneakily trying to outsmart you.

Tracy K. Smith

SchoolHigh SchoolThinkTryingYou

When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.

Rodney Crowell

WomenEgoConquerNashvilleFirst

I always loved country gospel from back when I was a teenager in high school and started listening to bluegrass quite a lot.

Ry Cooder

SchoolListeningHigh SchoolLoved

Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If you're dancing, you are joining in. If you stand there rigid, you are not in the flow of things.

Martin Parr

GreatTimeArtStandYouFlow

I have a hard time with awards shows in general because I've never been part of the conversation. I just show up to work and do my job because I love the job and I love the people I get to make TV with. When someone wants to applaud it more than just watching it, that makes me somewhat uncomfortable.

Milo Ventimiglia

WorkLoveTimeJobPeopleMe

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

Juan Goytisolo

TruthClarityMy OwnMoreOwnHold

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

Joseph Rykwert

YouUseMixedAboutCities

When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.

Craig Brown

SchoolBlackBicycleLongYoung

We got more out of this as a family than we were able to give to the people.

Connie Sellecca

FamilyPeopleMoreOutGiveAble

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