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… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. …

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• Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Photography
  • Competitive

• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Real
  • Love
  • Difficult

• The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Life
  • History

• When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.

  

  Halsey
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • You

• Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Beautiful
  • Hair
  • Brunette

• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Great
  • Music
  • Real

• Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.

  

  Zendaya
  • Care
  • Cold
  • Warm

• It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Time
  • Day
  • Doing

• The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Look

• Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Boy

• I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • True
  • Guy

• I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Women
  • Real
  • Age

• Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Beautiful
  • Freedom
  • Speak

• I said these trade deals are going to be terrible: we're going to lose manufacturing jobs, factories abroad; the real wages of Americans are not going to rise. People are coming across the border; it has got to be stopped.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Real
  • Said

• Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Understanding
  • Possible

• The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Corruption
  • Outside
  • Africa

• I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

  

  Jerry Doyle
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Air

• All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

  

  Chaim Potok
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe.

  

  Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

• Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Mother

• … That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. …

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
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