It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job.
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.
I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.
Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.
Queen of Hearts: [after the Queen of Hearts is hit in the head and covered in the table cloth] Someone's head IS GOING TO ROLL FOR THIS!
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.
In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.
I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.
The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.
Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.
If we want children to learn to tend the land and nourish themselves and have conversations at the table, we need to communicate with them in ways that are positive.
Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights
I tried doing the head-bang they were doing and banged my head with the table several times before I understood that I shouldn't be doing that.
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.
On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
