#sty

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#audience member #bad #either #given #good

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground. ↗

— Peter Bart

#basic #become #certainly #cozy #emerging

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. ↗

— Bernard Barton

#absolute #absolute necessity #age #below #beneath

It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#function #governments #i #i think #known

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. ↗

— Hector Berlioz

#failings #i #lack #least #modesty

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer. ↗

— Marilyn Horne

#composer #even #foreign #language #limited

A few dollars can buy a sugar rush, but when pleasure is followed by diabetes - that is true happiness. You look back on your life and marvel at how good you had it. You look forward to all the opportunities you have to make health changes in your lifestyle: cross-dressing, turning gay, voting democrat - no one can judge you when they see that insulin pump. Yes, diabetes is the great panacea of our age. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #lifestyle #age

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#circumstances #constitute #decree #fate #fortuitous

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. ↗

— James Oliver

#form #honesty #improved #industry #kindness

When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad. ↗

— Ken Burns

#been #documentary #every #film #filmmaker