#ado

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her. ↗

— Britney Spears

#awe #her #i #just #knows

I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#adopted #always #back #being #california

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#manipulating #music #poem #shadows #tonality

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#best #does #generally #him #indignation

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#because #bette #bette davis #davis #doing

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. ↗

— George Steiner

#genius #light #man #ordinary #ordinary man

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#beautiful woman #madonna #only #painted #queen

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#clinton #compassionate #conscious #could #his

For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco... It was amazing. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#ambassador #around #barcelona #between #chef