I write what I want to write, and then, when it’s finished, I use my judgment to see whether or not I think it’s intrusive. If it is problematic, then I ask those involved. I won’t necessarily do what they say. But I do consult. I haven’t had too many problems. Nobody’s really gotten angry at me. Nobody, as far as I know, has felt betrayed. John Edgar Wideman Read Quote
The background – your own history – is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional. Javier Bardem Read Quote
For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 ‘is involved’ or not (whatever ‘is involved’ might mean). Douglas Hofstadter Read Quote
When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it. Bernard Tschumi Read Quote
The institution of the family has very few friends in Washington. There are lobbyists in Washington for every possible entity, from the possum-growers of America to every kind of crazy thing. There’s somebody in Washington paid to advance the cause of that particular business, but there’s not a lot of support for the family. James Dobson Read Quote
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst. Marge Kennedy Read Quote
I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history. Summer Sanders Read Quote
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam. Shirin Ebadi Read Quote
I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you’re constantly being shown this garbage and you can’t get there. Charlie Kaufman Read Quote
