My parents moved to the states when I was 6, so I was raised by my grandma in the Dominican Republic and didn’t see them again until I was 10. Dania Ramirez Read Quote
Winter’s Bone’ really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you’ve got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment. Debra Granik Read Quote
How did we cure polio, smallpox and send a man to the moon? How did we decode the human genome in just 13 years? Collaboration. Focus on a specific goal, and teamwork. Margaret Cuomo Read Quote
I’m very fortunate. I loved school and, when I went there, race, gangs and violence were not issues. There was a feeling, gone now, that you had to be presentable. If you hadn’t combed your hair, older black ladies – complete strangers – would come up to you in the street and pull out a comb and straighten your tie. David Harewood Read Quote
There was a time there in the mid ’80s to the ’90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there. Mark Messier Read Quote
I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn’t keep to my game plan in the ’08 U.S. Women’s Open for the final round. That won’t happen again! Paula Creamer Read Quote
Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do – they’re our enemies. Melvin Van Peebles Read Quote
I knew I did not want to be a doctor; my parents kept talking to me about that. I wanted to be an NBA player, but around freshman and sophomore year, I stopped growing, so that was the end of that. Chieh Huang Read Quote
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life. Abbas Kiarostami Read Quote
I don’t make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: ‘everything.’ Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything! Aleksandar Hemon Read Quote
