My friends have said, ‘Wait, you’re pretty, and you sing? What do you mean you’re interested in science?’ I have to just hold my head and go, ‘Do you hear yourself?’ By no means should you ever limit yourself because of what others think or because of their perceptions of what someone looks like in a certain field. Auli'i Cravalho Read Quote
It’s fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, ‘Anyone else?’ Charles Nelson Reilly Read Quote
I like poems where you don’t really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them. X. J. Kennedy Read Quote
I grew up in Oldham and moved to Manchester and London. I didn’t go to drama school. I just did a B-Tech. Suranne Jones Read Quote
To a certain extent, platforms are platitudes that you test when you get to govern. You have to run those priorities up against the opposition and decide what’s most important. Sheldon Whitehouse Read Quote
I’m Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I’m an autobiographical writer in the sense that whether in fiction or nonfiction, the issues and relationships and phenomena and problems I’m most interested in exploring are the ones I’ve experienced personally. Elif Batuman Read Quote
