3 December 2020 Francois Truffaut I’d skip school regularly to see movies – even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
3 December 2020 Al McGuire I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
3 December 2020 Sylvester Stallone Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
3 December 2020 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites – let’s say the sites around Iran – where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.
3 December 2020 Hayden Christensen I don’t find Hollywood interesting, so I’m thinking of studying architecture instead.
3 December 2020 Anthony LaPaglia A lot of people think I’m that guy in ‘Betsy’s Wedding’, but I’m not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
3 December 2020 James Otis My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
3 December 2020 David Baldacci The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.
3 December 2020 Olivia Munn If you think something’s funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.
3 December 2020 Sacha Guitry Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
3 December 2020 Rachel Griffiths It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
3 December 2020 Meghan O'Rourke It’s all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.
3 December 2020 Thomas Keller Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it’s wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.
3 December 2020 Art Buchwald Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
3 December 2020 Jesse Jackson People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people’s home lives, domestic stuff.
3 December 2020 Marian Wright Edelman Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
3 December 2020 Leighton Meester In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that’s funny.
3 December 2020 Soren Kierkegaard Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
3 December 2020 Aida Turturro I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
3 December 2020 David Allan Coe All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
3 December 2020 Julianna Margulies I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It’s funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, ‘Okay, let’s experience that.’ You just have to just go with it because it’s rare.
3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
