My father is Portuguese, and in Portugal, it is traditional to take your mother’s maiden name as a middle name. My mum is called Tough. Lucy Bronze Read Quote
I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting to go by a different name, and then it just kind of stuck. Melissa McCarthy Read Quote
I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was playing on the piano. Mabel Read Quote
This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn’t ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I’m there for. Chiwetel Ejiofor Read Quote
As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations. Deborah Tannen Read Quote
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. Sun Tzu Read Quote
Maybe I didn’t get new skates, but I got used skates. I made it to the national championships in used skates that were custom-made for another girl. I still have those skates. Underneath the arch, there was a name crossed out and my dad had ‘Michelle Kwan’ written in. Granted, they were a little big, but it worked. Michelle Kwan Read Quote
