I was such a wallflower in high school. I did a lot of extracurricular theatre shows, but at school, I spent a lot of time by myself. I ate lunch by myself, and I was always okay with it. But I was definitely made fun of, and I always felt like an outsider. Melissa Benoist Read Quote
Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look for a very special kind of financing and go down a very gentle path in order to make my films, as do basically all social-realist filmmakers. It’s a long process. Debra Granik Read Quote
If you’re based in two places, on a bad day you see only the disadvantages everywhere. On a bad day, returning to Germany brings back all kinds of spectres from the past. W. G. Sebald Read Quote
There was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor. Julian Sands Read Quote
One afternoon, on my way to the campus – I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University – a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I’d ever been photographed. Iman Read Quote
Every fight, every camp I learn about myself and I get better. But every fight I get better. Dustin Poirier Read Quote
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. Octavia E. Butler Read Quote
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity. John Nelson Darby Read Quote
Don’t believe that winning is really everything. It’s more important to stand for something. If you don’t stand for something, what do you win? Lane Kirkland Read Quote
