#range

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#ask #asked #because #black #blond

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#agent #blonde #brunette #comes #even

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#biggest #even #freshman #freshman year #geek

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. ↗

— Angela Carter

#ancient greeks #cinema #dark #dream #dreaming

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#call #example #five #for example #good

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#deal #discussed #discussions #give #good

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#divine #highest #human #human reason #itself

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on. ↗

— George Clooney

#anybody #down #film #film actors #god

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do. ↗

— Glenn Close

#everybody #kind #little #little thing #looking

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#definition #intellectual #listen #lone #lone ranger