I don’t want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process. G. Willow Wilson Read Quote
Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill. Dennis Cardoza Read Quote
For me as a young kid, my parents took me to random cities. I stayed at my relatives and the biggest trouble I had was watching TV on my own. Ritesh Agarwal Read Quote
I don’t really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don’t think I’m very good at it, and I’m not really interested in it anymore as an adult. Bobcat Goldthwait Read Quote
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children. Saint Teresa of Avila Read Quote
When I did ‘The Passion,’ nobody believed in the movie. Everybody was telling me, ‘You shouldn’t do this movie… But I wanted to play Mary Magdalene. I thought that I could do something strong and deep with this character. Monica Bellucci Read Quote
If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann Read Quote
