#fat

I grew up watching my father make plates that featured penises as centerpieces. Pink, proud, and stiff, encircled by cerulean Greek key, Dad’s creations made me feel scared and small. I saw a private part of the man I could not measure up to. At six years old, I lived in a world shaded by his ceramic glazes. There was love and color, but anger, too, in the way he kneaded his clay, palms pounding the rich, wet earth into shapes of his choosing. ↗

— Royal Young

#ceramics #fame #fathers #sex #anger

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film. ↗

— Ron Moody

#destined #fagin #fate #film #i

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. ↗

— Hannah More

#cannot #decreed #digs #fatigued #fed

Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father! ↗

— Kenneth More

#because #could #coward #father #i

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#also #both #curriculum #educators #father

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#different #father #left #me #media

I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life. ↗

— Chad Michael Murray

#hard #his #i #life #mean

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#birth #bound #decadence #empires #fate

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#death #father #death

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#before #born #could #died #good