#rent

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#advocate #challenge #conviction #coup #even

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#chameleon #different #i #kinds #limit

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#different #does #feeling #felt #first

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#against #always #ambition #been #first

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#being #different #different person #feels #getting

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#come #could #different #done #i

There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#anyone #big #completely #different #direction

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#commandments #different #different set #every #every man

I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn. ↗

— Paula Yates

#bathroom #collecting #ever #family #father

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#borrowing #card #children #enjoy #give