#rid

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#home #home state #i #into #land

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. ↗

— Mary Antin

#bright #civic #contentment #entered #i

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#humiliation #lift #people #pride #themselves

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#bad #college #college students #did #done

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#fear #film #going #good #like

I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked. ↗

— Rosanna Arquette

#bathing suit #beach #being #burt #comfortable

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#came #comedy #crowd #doing #half

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#atlantic #delivering #goods #here #ideology

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#aspiration #convention #disregarded #eagerness #get

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#becomes #country #paris #provincial #ridiculous