#reo

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered them away from other Americans. This fracture comes with a steep price: in today's toxic atmosphere, liberals are no less cynical, shortsighted, and parochial than anyone else, and they understand their fellow-Americans just as badly as they themselves are understood. When liberals look at red-state voters, they see either a mob of pious know-nothings or the insensible victims of militarism and class warfare. Yet.... [such people] defy fixed categories, which means that they have to be figured out the hard way--on their own terms. ↗

— George Packer

#stereotypes

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#away #berle #choreographer #i #me

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#dancers #draining #getting #into #mentally

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.' ↗

— Khandi Alexander

#back #choreography #give #go #i

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#i #into #my own #own #sort

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#car #clothes #expensive #expensive clothes #go

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#been #continuous #did #dreams #earth

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#classical #dance #i #interest #interested

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#community #get #happens #main #preoccupation