“I remember asking my mom, "Do you think that I will ever have enough money to live outside of your house?" And she would be like, "You just never know."” ThinkingKnowsEnoughWould BeRememberHouseLike YouMomAskingMy Mom Author:Lena Dunham
“I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!” PeopleWantLike YouMusic IsAskingLoserCrapAutographsPreps Author:Avril Lavigne
“I enjoy fame except when I'm with my daughter. Kids stop me all the time and I don't want her to be jealous of the attention. Also, sometimes I just want to be left alone and I refuse to make rubber faces. That's when they start asking, What's the matter, man, don't you like your job? I say, Yeah, I like my job. But I also like having sex, and I'm not going to do that in front of you either.” MenWantSometimesMatterKidsJobsFacesLeftSexEnjoyAttentionFrontsLike YouFameDaughterAskingYeahRefuseMy DaughterJealousLeft AloneRubberHaving SexBeing Jealous Author:Jim Carrey
“I did have a couple of people asking me to illustrate their MC in a hope to widen the exposure, unfortunately the messages weren't a good fit, so I couldn't oblige. And I didn't really want to become a matchmaking service. Someone posted a missed connection "I like your blog" which was directed at me... that was kind of fun to stumble across.” PeopleWantKindFunLike YouCoupleFitMessagesConnectionsAskingExposureBlogsI Like YouMissed Connections Author:Sophie Blackall
“When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.” IfsWantGivingDoeSaidUseHomeWould BeMotherGirlNamesSpeakLanguageBoysClearTeacherLike YouAskingStrangerIntimacyLoudAppropriateInstructionClassroomNunInappropriateBoy And GirlNicknamesSpeak Now Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.” IfsWritingKindLike YouAskingDumb Author:Wanda Sykes
“Someone asked me recently, "Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?" And the reason I don't is because I actually feel like you could chronicle my journey of self-acceptance through my journey with my hair. It's a badge of something bigger.” PeopleFeelsSelfReasonJourneyAcceptanceLike YouHairSickBiggerAskingSelf AcceptanceBadgesChroniclesMy Journey Author:Tracee Ellis Ross