#shed

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#called #cared #children #day #did

But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#becomes #before #bit #conducting #deal

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before. ↗

— Angela Davis

#between #black #class #connection #different

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. ↗

— Mark Twain

#accomplished #basically #claim #crowded #first

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more. ↗

— Brad Bird

#any #anyone #astonished #because #come

I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle. ↗

— Judy Davis

#because #becomes #brushed #curly #first

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#even #freshly #obvious #relieved #sticky

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read. ↗

— Peter Davison

#found #i #inspired #often #pushed

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. ↗

— Hugo Black

#blown #constitution #each #judges #new

This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court. ↗

— Rosario Dawson

#choose #court #embrace #established #future