In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better. Susan Orlean Read Quote
I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you’ll attract it, but if you’re just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they’re doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity. Felicity Jones Read Quote
The big things in the average person’s life are the romances that they have – and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension… these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn’t have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me. Loudon Wainwright III Read Quote
It’s not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That’s not academic scholarship. Juan Cole Read Quote
Mr. Trump set an example of how an individual can damage a country. There are agitations all around, and the whole of U.S. is under turmoil. N. Chandrababu Naidu Read Quote
I did nine months in ‘Mrs. Klein’ in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did ‘Angels & Insects’. We shot ‘The Blood Oranges’ in Mexico for six weeks. Laila Robins Read Quote
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith Read Quote
It is impossible to give a performance that makes you unaware of the fact that you’re watching an actor and be really involved in all aspects of filmmaking. Regina King Read Quote
If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I’m thinking, I hope they’ll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn’t have dinosaurs in it – which I plan to do. Colin Trevorrow Read Quote
