Mary Gaitskill At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn’t really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling. – Mary Gaitskill Discuss Quotes Feeling Quotes Hanging Quotes Intellectual Quotes Shy Quotes Slightest Quotes Toronto Quotes I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15. One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings.
Jan C Ting Both my parents were immigrants, as were many of their friends, the parents of the children with whom I grew up. Of course I respect and admire immigrants and their undeniable contributions to America, as we all should. – Jan C Ting
Andrew AdonisBaron Adonis When I was a minister I only went on about things I was going to make happen. I very rarely talked about things I wasn’t. – Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
Sam Childers I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan. – Sam Childers
Jon Cryer To avoid ignorance and bullying, I’ve had to hide the fact that I’m a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I’ve spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this. – Jon Cryer
Bebe Rexha When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with. – Bebe Rexha
Geoffrey Rush Most films I’ve worked on have had large casts, but they’ve been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I’ve had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn’t believe. – Geoffrey Rush
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