James Stewart later spoke of a scene in a car with Harlow in Wife vs. Secretary:
“Clarence Brown, the director, wasn’t too pleased by the way I did the smooching. He made us repeat the scene about half a dozen times…I botched it up on purpose. That Jean Harlow sure was a good kisser. I realized that until then I had never been really kissed.”
| — | Hillary Clinton (via ricebowls) |
| — | Marc Riboud |
| — | Russell Brand describes the first time he heard Amy Winehouse sing. Twerp is a wonderful word. |
Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you’re 52? Nobody’s going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool?
It’s nice that you got to be so old. It’s a blessing.
| — | Iris Apfel |
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from Flower Decoration |
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us.
To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.
| — | Jonathan Franzen |
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George Bernard Shaw This one’s for you, Laurel Broten, for forcing a contract onto teachers after you refused to negotiate one (because saying “take it or leave it” is not a negotiation). You say you’re looking out for students’ best interests, but you’re really just punishing the teacher’s union for daring to challenge your authority. Your petulance sets dangerous precedents. You are undermining the next generation’s expectation of a living wage. You are decreasing our chances of affording real health care for ourselves and our families (because “free” government healthcare covers surprisingly little). As the population ages and long-term care facilities become increasingly crowded, you are jeopardizing pensions that might ease an uncertain old age. (Don’t worry, I’m sure you’re own pension is safe.) Rather than try to discuss, to compromise, our governments hide behind “back to work” legislation. Save us from inconvenience! But how can employees attempt to affect change if they have no right to act in their own best interests? Without the power of collective bargaining, the individual employee is easily discarded. Without the risk of job action, of inconvenience, nothing motivates an employer or (in the case of publicly-run services) a government to come to the table. In the shadow of your “students first” rhetoric, graduating students will enter a working world where they must forfeit their voices for a job and accept employer’s terms, reasonable or no. You (and those like you) encourage employers to disregard the people upon whose shoulders they stand—upon which you stand. If this is your duty, it is shameful. |
| — | Carolina Herrera |
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s directive to students in a Form of Fiction term-paper assignment Pay heed, people. |
| — | Maria Schneider |
