He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. William Gilmore Simms Read Quote
By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it. Zoe Foster Blake Read Quote
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Read Quote
Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it’s a huge deal. Mary Karr Read Quote
I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything. Will Smith Read Quote
I’m not a union guy in the sense that I know a lot about how they operate. But I know fighters. They are individual athletes. This is not a team sport. I think it’s going to be hard to say, ‘Hey, do you mind not fighting on Saturday and walking around the arena with a picket sign instead?’ I just don’t see it. Scott Coker Read Quote
When you don’t have sport, it’s like, oh, what do we fall back onto? And I think Nelson Mandela was the first person to really say that: sport unites people in a way that nothing else does. And if you take sport away, then I don’t know really what we have. Dale Steyn Read Quote
The fundamental question I believe is, ‘Is political Islam in our best interest?’ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces? Jim Mattis Read Quote