I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
Halima Aden
Recitation: by Male by Female
Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spend time with use that as a big screening mechanism. And that's really the reason, we think, families are pushed into worse housing and worse neighborhoods after their evictions.
Matthew Desmond
TimeThinkGoReasonHousingBig
When my mother read 'The Joy Luck Club', she was always complaining to me how she had to tell her friends that, no, she was not the mother or any of the mothers in the book.
Amy Tan
MotherJoyMeLuckBookFriends
Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don't know how hard it is. Once you've done it, when you're writing a second one, it's almost like you're preparing, and it's almost holding you back.
Mike Birbiglia
WritingYouBackWrongKnowDone
The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.
Jaromir Jagr
TiredGameYouBodyDownPlay
Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.
Debbie Ford
LifeFearPastBehaviorMy LifeUp
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
Anne Rice
EnoughSayWriteSomethingWord
I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.
Alfredo Kraus
SingingWillMust
There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare
IgnoranceDarkness
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Philip Guston
PaintingMagicYouIllusionSee
I don't want to be known as a politician.
Susana Martinez
WantPoliticianKnown
Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come true.
Sheryl Lee
LoveStartBackDreamTrueCompany
The theatrical marketplace is a challenge. What do you have to do to get someone to purchase a movie ticket to your movie? You have to do something that they've never seen before; you've got to enthrall them in a new way.
Richard Linklater
ChallengeSomeoneYouNewWayNever
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