Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
Edie Brickell
Recitation: by Male by Female
I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.
Melanie Roach
FamilyChildrenDecisionMindLearn
I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.
Mary Gaitskill
ThinkYouWriteOutFictionGoing
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
Martin Seligman
LifeGoodHappinessKnowledgePower
For a couple of years, being professional, I kind of questioned myself. Should I wear my false lashes or take the time I want to take so I can feel good when I go out on the field? Because nobody else was really doing that. And I thought, No: I'm not going to change what I believe I should look like to fit anybody else's standards.
Michelle Carter
ChangeGoodTimeMyselfFeel Good
I moved to New York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way.
Jonathan Groff
LifeDayNew YorkKitchenRestaurant
The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so coming to a book is more ready-made. You at least have the story that someone sorted out.
Debra Granik
TimeBookStorySomeoneYouMore
It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.
Chris Lilley
YouPrettyBeingAwful
My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.
Christian Slater
MomentSchoolMeMomActorFollow
We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.
Cory Booker
GreatSchoolCityKnowWillNever
There was a time when events that define the human condition were subject to very limited and time-delayed analysis. In the 21st Century and beyond, however, the human condition is subject to real-time, overwhelming analysis and dissection.
Shervin Pishevar
TimeBeyondHumanEventsAnalysis
Women boxers prefer to focus on the win rather than the bravado. We've come a long way. In the '90s, you only ever saw women parading in heels and a bikini holding a scorecard. Now we're owning it; we should get some male models in Speedos to do the ring walk.
Nicola Adams
WomenFocusWalkWinLongYou
Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.
Nicolas Roeg
FearHopeSadnessFullOurGenres
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