Watching my stepfather and mother working in the industry – acting and composing – and seeing firsthand how difficult it is to achieve a successful career in the theater, I thought it might be safer to go to art school with the aim of becoming a painter. Juliet Rylance Read Quote
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that. Ice Cube Read Quote
I don’t deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn’t because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me. B. F. Skinner Read Quote
Mum was a big style icon for me: her natural sexiness and natural confidence. Stella McCartney Read Quote
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. Elizabeth I Read Quote
What I’m resistant to is the ‘Walk the Line’ biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn’t wash with me. I’ve been there and things don’t work out that way. Nick Cave Read Quote
You always – as a basketball player, as a competitor – that’s where you speak most: on the court. Luol Deng Read Quote
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening. Clarissa Pinkola Estes Read Quote
