#age

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#crystal #day #drawer #get #hand

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actions #deciding #determines #fate #first

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#another #coming #dump #expenses #guy

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#finally #i #i can #reached #stage

I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#cage #doing #down #going #had

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#comes #had #hard #hard worker #her

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. ↗

— Euripides

#hopes #man #persevere #trusting

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. ↗

— Euripides

#best #best time #poor #rich #time

After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up. ↗