Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isn’t.
There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'
Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.
I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.
Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.
Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.
The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.
I'm terribly shallow. I don't miss things once I have stopped doing them, and I don't miss people when I stop seeing them.
'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a female presenter on TV, in which case you're ready for the knacker's yard at 35.
All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.
I try to swim for 30 minutes and walk for 30 minutes, because if I don't, my finely honed body will slip into its old ways.
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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