#privilege

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#privilege #freedom

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#best #i #i think #luxury #privileged

It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly. ↗

— Emily Watson

#camera #film #heart #incredible #into

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed. ↗

— Walter Lord

#be nice #behave #behaved #came #characters

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#call #corrupt #down #face #frivolous

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#challenged #college #convinced #dishes #expense

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. ↗

— Hesketh Pearson

#fact #in fact #learned #man #misquotation

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#children #exhortations #giving #guiding #high

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#certain #documents #excess #far #insert

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#await #awareness #because #been #catastrophes