BeautyDaniel Burnham It was Chicago with its World’s Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty. – Daniel Burnham Beauty Quotes Chicago Quotes Civic Quotes Desire Quotes Fair Quotes National Quotes Vivified Quotes Worlds Quotes Beauty awakens the soul to act. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
FinanceJonathan KozolMedical Savage Inequalities’ was about school finance, and ‘Amazing Grace’ primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with ‘Ordinary Resurrections,’ I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go. – Jonathan Kozol
Emma Donoghue You know the way there are two kinds of actors – the De Niro kind who’s always De Niro, and then somebody like Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don’t have a house style. – Emma Donoghue
Carre Otis Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women’s lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering. – Carre Otis
Marian Keyes Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they’re never mocked, whereas it’s easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we’re used to it. – Marian Keyes
Matthew Yglesias A normal recession disrupts people’s lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis. – Matthew Yglesias
Patrick Bamford At a club like Chelsea, they have the money to buy world class strikers like Diego Costa, and there’s also that pressure to win trophies. I just have to stick with it, be patient, and hopefully my rewards will come. – Patrick Bamford
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