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And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

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• Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Art
  • Job

• The British have always made terrible parents.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Parents
  • Always
  • British

• Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Mistake
  • Service
  • Honesty

• All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Enjoy
  • New
  • New Things

• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Happy
  • Song
  • Know

• I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Interview

• Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Worried
  • Troubled
  • Attorney

• And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Night
  • City
  • Thought

• The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Experiences

• God is much greater than anything we can imagine.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • Imagine
  • Greater

• I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Community
  • Always
  • Israel

• I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Moment
  • Wings
  • Plane

• Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Change
  • English
  • Matter

• Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Wish
  • Thought
  • Saying

• I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Food
  • Fish

• It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Good
  • Love
  • Friends

• You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Cats

• We soothe newborns, but parents soon start teaching their children to tolerate higher levels of arousal, a job that is often assigned to fathers. (I once heard the psychologist John Gottman say, “Mothers stroke, and fathers poke.”) Learning how to manage arousal is a key life skill, and parents must do it for babies before babies can do it for themselves. If that gnawing sensation in his belly makes a baby cry, the breast or bottle arrives. If he’s scared, someone holds and rocks him until he calms down. If his bowels erupt, someone comes to make him clean and dry. Associating intense sensations with safety, comfort, and mastery is the foundation of self-regulation, self-soothing, and self-nurture, a theme to which I return throughout this book.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Book
  • Parents
  • Teaching

• A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • World
  • Know
  • Place

• There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kids

• And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

  

  Andrew McMahon
  • Become
  • Confusion
  • Insight