I was not really as good as I should have been.
Eddie Albert
Recitation: by Male by Female
I don't believe in overdoing myself.
Jennifer Hudson
MyselfBelieveOverdoing
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
Andrew O'Hagan
AgeChildrenWorldBelieveHuman
When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.
Robert Rankin
YouSayWriteThey SayTakeHear
As a father of two black sons now, you ask yourself, 'What do I have to do to assure the safety of these boys?' It can be daunting.
Sterling K. Brown
FatherYourselfSafetyBlackYou
The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
Simon Schama
HistoryBibleSocialRichesDocument
I think everybody needs to find out who they are and who their, like, inner superhero is, or who you like to be. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing what the hell they wanted to do and being who they wanted to be.
LP
WorldThinkHellBetterDoingYou
Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.
Jay Inslee
IdeasSmallProblemsHelpWashington
I think it's important to try to get on a kid's level when taking their photo.
Brandon Stanton
ThinkImportantTryKidLevelGet
Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
Anupam Kher
ChangeFailureFearDestinyYou
It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.
William Godwin
PositiveLawResultEscapeWithin
Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs.
Lydia Millet
SpaceIdeasFreeRelationshipsSafe
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
Lionel Trilling
CultureSocietySelfLiteratureHigh
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