#age

I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.' ↗

— Marcia Cross

#being #believe #did #go #god

For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience. ↗

— Marcia Cross

#certain #certain age #children #clock #crazy

You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you. ↗

— Victor Cruz

#becomes #get #how #image #kind

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#born #french #french language #guest #i

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#crazy #down #get #hollywood #i

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by. ↗

— Kenny Cunningham

#actively #always #felt #football #get

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#books #encourage #feel #gesture #heroic

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#again #along #behave #closely #constantly

This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him. ↗

— Richard M. Helms

#also #any #central #contact #contemplated

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#cannot #cardinal #continuously #escapes #improve