People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and you have to get to the beginning of the 20th century fast. It’s pretty easy to go lightly on the Gilded Age. H. W. Brands Read Quote
I didn’t know box office was a thing you could possess but I don’t have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn’t much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself! Olivia Williams Read Quote
It is racist, and it was racist when it was created. The Indian Act controls, or seeks to control, the lives of all indigenous people in a way that you and I would never accept. Paul Martin Read Quote
By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks. Wayne Huizenga Read Quote
I wouldn’t even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there’s a difference. Jurnee Smollett-Bell Read Quote
In Benin, there’s a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing. Dana Perino Read Quote
What I was doing wasn’t good enough. It was good enough up until I met someone who was doing it properly – someone who was stronger than me and in better mental and physical condition than I was. Dillian Whyte Read Quote
I’m reading Sebastian Faulks’s ‘Birdsong’ at the moment. I read it when I was younger but decided to re-read it, as I remembered really liking it at the time. Eliza Doolittle Read Quote
