#mo

Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within and outside of their class. Although private wealth is the basis of the hegemony of this group, philanthropy is essential to the maintenance and perpetuation of the upper class in the United States. In this sense, nonprofit activities are the nexus of a modern power elite. ↗

— Teresa Odendahl

#clinton #hegemony #non-profit #philanthropy #power-elite

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#apprenticeship #bond #bond movie #doing #feel

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#before #characters #goes #lifestyle #movie

My family's big on denial. And if we denied something long enough, we thought it'd go away. I know that's not how it works, but we're in denial about that, too. ↗

— Lisa Shearin

#family

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#book #comic #comic book #comics #i

...it woke me up, got me focused back on my current tasks: find Libby, save Libby, find James, kiss James, maul James, press James for details on Stiles, find Stiles, fight Stiles, find Morgan, find his bride, make them fall in love, make Naomi understand, make Libby normal again, kiss James again, eat a few prices of fruit. Total order. ↗

— Beth Bloom

#humor #run-on-sentence #run-on-sentence-award #funny

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#acting #away #came #college #commercial

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war. ↗

— George Konrád

#trauma #war #architecture

Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous. ↗

— Donna Mills

#gorgeous #her #movie #rita #shot

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#autobiographical #bring #i #i write #into