#star

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s. ↗

— Candace Parker

#daughter #eventually #generation #get #his way

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me. ↗

— Evan Parker

#came #decision #discovered #doors #having

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules. ↗

— Paul Parker

#allow #bit #here #me #philosophy

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#assignments #before #bureau #europe #even

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. ↗

— Walter Pater

#culture #eager #human #human spirit #life

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#came #closest #ever #fact #first

I never starved myself. ↗

— Tatjana Patitz

#myself #never #starved

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.' ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#actor #asked #because #bunch #came

Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#am #anyone #anything #besides #course

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#every #everything #luxury #must #paid