#lives

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#age #because #being #difficult #dramas

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#certain #certain kinds #i #i do #kinds

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concentrate #feel #i #individuals #intimately

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#being #consider #days #end #heart

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#challenge #coupled #day #difference #different

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?' ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#asked #beliefs #buildings #burning #did

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#become #business #dedicated #devote #engineering

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling. ↗

— Richard Gere

#acting #different #express #extremely #fulfilling

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. ↗

— Judy Blume

#back #go #i #i think #into

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#art #damn #damn thing #every #just