When you’re bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, ‘What are you?’ It was like I wasn’t even human. Alexander Chee Read Quote
I wanted to do plays. But then I got out of school and started getting jobs in movies and TV. And I seemed more suited to that. I like the intimacy of working for the camera, the size of performance it requires. I love getting into tiny moments. Elizabeth Reaser Read Quote
I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever. Ethel Waters Read Quote
America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds – that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community. Sam Graves Read Quote
My dad always taught me to let the clubs talk. So if people don’t know who I am, I guess I’m just not playing well enough. Xander Schauffele Read Quote
Grassroots techies – the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don’t make the headlines – hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed. Virginia Postrel Read Quote
Vicente Fox beat the PRI by gambling on a simple formula: Marketing + Money = Presidency. Denise Dresser Read Quote
Even after creating a budget and being more money conscience, it’s still easy to overspend during the holidays. John Rampton Read Quote
If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it. Elizabeth Strout Read Quote
