#age

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day. ↗

— Mary Antin

#bare #conversation #correctly #day #evening

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#course #face #fighting #gay #majority

I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#body #bra #day #end #even

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#comfortable #else #i #more #onstage

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#i #i think #important #maintaining #manager

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#afford #always #babysitter #being #child

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#anyone #arts #because #business #chooses

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis. ↗

— Michael Apted

#britain #enigma #great #history #invaded

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#attack #courage #dangers #endure #principal

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#been #fantastic #far #got #grease