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Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. ↗

— Nancy Chodorow

#entails #less #lower #occupation #outside

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. ↗

— Steven Chu

#details #efficient #efficient way #focus #i

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#details #gets #his #life #own

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#control #emails #finds #hair #his

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder. ↗

— Celine Dion

#details #dreaming #familiar #into #keep

Nothing fails like failure. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#failure #like #nothing

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#fails #failure #like #nothing #say

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#going #hollywood #i #i see #me

More can be learned from what works than from what fails. ↗

— Rene Dubos

#learned #more #than #works