It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
Barry Goldwater
Recitation: by Male by Female
Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn't after what she wants by the top of page two, you get treated as if you've failed at writing.
Andrea Seigel
CharacterPeopleWritingYouPage
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
Andrew Davies
ProblemEverythingWonderfulFunction
I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.
Steve Coogan
SchoolI AmComputersGenerationOld
I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.
Stephen Tobolowsky
LoveTheatreDoingDoneBroadway
When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.
Robert B. Laughlin
ResearchTryingDiscoveryUnderstand
The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.
Alice Morse Earle
AmericanFatWayFirstLighting
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
Alice Waters
PositiveFoodCultureCreativeLike
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen
LifeArtBadTelevisionImitate
Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.
William Shatner
WorkPeopleBagYouPlayDone
I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.
Shane Claiborne
LovePoliticsPeopleEngageAffects
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
Sean O'Casey
GreatReligionThinkPossibleReason
So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.
Linda Lavin
WorkSchoolNew YorkLookingDrama
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