It is an Englishman who turns out to be the real villain of ‘The Moonstone.’ By contrast, the three Indian priests who dedicate their lives to returning the jewel to its proper home in the temple, though they have nothing personal to gain by doing so, are positively heroic. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan. Malcolm Turnbull Read Quote
My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton. Michael Douglas Read Quote
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good. Herman Wouk Read Quote
The thing about radio is that it’s got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don’t have to give it your full attention – you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don’t with radio. Jarvis Cocker Read Quote
I don’t want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so. Althea Gibson Read Quote
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater. Ellen Pompeo Read Quote