#bashed

We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they're willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They're not all gang bangers. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#country #gang #get #give #impressive

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics. ↗

— John Grisham

#bashed #critics #fiction #get #going

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#bashed #because #control #demonstration #got

You grabbed my hand and twirled me around, two sidewalk sweethearts. Then, very earnestly, you stopped, leaned over, and whispered, "You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to. ↗

— David Levithan

#romance #unabashedly #change

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#concerned #far #money #people #ruthless

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed. ↗

— Helen Garner

#bashed #bear #been #call #i

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#genre #i #like #mainstream #me

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#doing #familiar #familiar things #get #i

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#age #around #because #before #being

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#favor #i #i am #make #policy