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I do well with peoples' parents, but I've certainly had friends who were not. One of my best friends is pretty consistently reviled by his girlfriends' parents!

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• The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Life
  • Korea
  • North Korea

• The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Fun
  • Want
  • You

• Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Long
  • Money
  • Movie

• We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Show
  • Demand
  • Human Rights

• In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Why
  • Character

• Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Curiosity
  • Devotion
  • Less

• I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Know
  • Beauty
  • Internet

• Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Live
  • Love
  • Passion

• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Work
  • Parents

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Why
  • Game
  • Man

• And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Single

• You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • You
  • Ego

• Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • You
  • Stand

• I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Business

• In your 40s, you kind of know how things are likely to go, and you're better at saying, 'You know what? That just doesn't suit me...' I remember thinking in my 30s, 'I should go to Burning Man. I could be a Burning Man person.' And in my 40s, I'm like, 'You know what? I'm never going to go to Burning Man.'

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • Great
  • Women
  • Character

• Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Good
  • Friends

• You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • People
  • Women

• I do well with peoples' parents, but I've certainly had friends who were not. One of my best friends is pretty consistently reviled by his girlfriends' parents!

  

  Connor Paolo
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Parents