When someone is good, but it doesn’t seem like their world will collapse if they don’t get the part, it’s more appealing. It’s like dating someone: You don’t want someone who’s too into you. Steve Carell Read Quote
My father was in Ataturk’s closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey. Ahmet Ertegun Read Quote
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company. Leonard Lauder Read Quote
Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States. Charlaine Harris Read Quote
The – the early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and – and remained personally very wealthy. Tatas were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They – they were involved in the business, but most of the family wealth is put into trust, and the family did not, in fact, enjoy enormous wealth. Ratan Tata Read Quote
People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she’s a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and ’40s. Peter Jackson Read Quote
Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it’s a different kind of fun. Jules Shear Read Quote
I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me. Chiwetel Ejiofor Read Quote
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. Fyodor Dostoevsky Read Quote
The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I’m well aware of that. Hillary Clinton Read Quote
