#thing

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#barack obama #behalf #brutish #building #campaign

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#another #childhood #comes #drawing #everything

I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say. ↗

— Dana Fox

#because #degrees #dues #getting #got

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#doing #every #got #i #live

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#ever #get #his way #i #involved

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross. ↗

— Megan Fox

#anyone #attraction #doing #feign #get

I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#actor #audience #been #between #bond

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#gotten #i #kids #me #never

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#exciting #faces #friends #history #like

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#life #nothing #prepares #you