I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I’d marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn’t raised to set the world on fire. Dani Shapiro Read Quote
I would say any creative person has that: you can’t just force a topic. Whether you’re a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that’s not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it. Kenya Barris Read Quote
Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system. Bahman Ghobadi Read Quote
It’s not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny. Erik Griffin Read Quote
Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I’m flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy? Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts. Elias Hicks Read Quote
To say I drank my way into marriage isn’t much of an exaggeration, and it’s none at all to say I drank my way out of it. Lawrence Block Read Quote
When I’m in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I’m holding her. Kellan Lutz Read Quote
