I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact. Samuel L. Jackson Read Quote
Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there’s a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable. Gabe Newell Read Quote
You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have ‘Letterman,’ and the next day you’re at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can’t cancel anything, because it’s just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band. Jack Antonoff Read Quote
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered. Charles Rosen Read Quote
As an actress people always tease me like: if there’s anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it. Amy Adams Read Quote
The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, ‘Please do it faster.’ Robbie Robertson Read Quote
I understand I’m a sinner. I’m not perfect, and I need a Savior, and that I’m not going to make it to Heaven on merits and doing good things. Matt Holliday Read Quote
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it’s usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is ‘fairy lights,’ which we boringly refer to as ‘Christmas lights.’ Sloane Crosley Read Quote
Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls. Caitlin Flanagan Read Quote
