“When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.” WorldWantLooksStepsHonestEventsDesignMy FriendsAskingStudiosDinnerPretendingClosetsHonest Friends Author:Nicole Richie
“In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn't sing anymore. I'd tell them, 'I sing all around the world-Asia, Africa, Europe-but if you don't sing in the US, then you haven't really made it.' That's why I'll always be grateful to Paul Simon. He allowed me to bring my music back to my friends in this country.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsMadeCountryStatesHavensMy FriendsEuropeAskingGratefulMade ItAround The WorldBe GratefulAsia Author:Miriam Makeba
“I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I'm posting a picture of me and my friend.” PeopleMy FriendsAskingTiredPostsInstagram Author:Sarah Hyland
“I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.” PeopleWantGivingFeelsFeelingsRunningLostLanguageCryDepressionMy FriendsMy FamilyGive MeAskingIllnessCaringMental IllnessTerritoryInvitationsFacilityForeignersNoticingFaking ItNew Territory Author:Martha Manning
“When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.” ThinkingWayMeanEndsInterestingConversationMy FriendsAskingInstanceDictionaryInteresting Conversation Author:Andrew Bird
“As I started getting older and started to learn about the world, my friends would tell me about video games and dirt bikes and stuff, and I'd be like, "Oh, I got none of that." I started asking questions, like, "Why we can't get this stuff?" And it was like, "Well, we work hard to make sure da da da..."” WorldWellsHardGamesStuffHard WorkMy FriendsAskingVideoDirtBikeGetting OldGetting OlderAsking QuestionsDirt Bikes Author:Fetty Wap
“I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."” PeopleIfsSaidCharacterKidsMotherIndustryMetsDirectorsDaughterMy FriendsFemaleDecidedAskingFeministProducersThey SaidFemale CharactersMother DaughterKids Movie Author:Geena Davis
“I've learned that I don't want to be as open or public about relationships anymore. In my first relationship, I thought I could hold on to the normalcy of just being like "Yeah, we're dating," just like if it were high school and I was telling my friends. But in high school, there aren't articles written everywhere when you break up and you don't have everyone in the school coming up to you and asking what happened or sharing their opinion with you. It didn't feel like ours anymore, it felt like everybody else's.” IfsWantFeelsFirstsSchoolFeltOpinionBreakWrittenHappenedHigh SchoolMy FriendsDatingAskingYeahI've LearnedArticlesJust BeingUp To YouNormalcy Author:Camila Cabello
“All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!” FourMy FriendsLettersAskingDirtyPeersNaughtyFour Letter Words Author:Dionne Warwick
“I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.” I CanHopeAsksFriendshipShareMy FriendsAskingMy Future Book:The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923 Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923
“I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.” “What?” she demanded. He shrugged. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.” IfsMenWantSaidFacesNightGrowsRealizingPerfectMorningLaughingKnowingImagineLove YouHundredMy FriendsTownsAskingAppearanceYour FaceLiving My LifeSighWithout YouMarry Me Author:Julia Quinn
“I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number of friends in the last few years. I don't mean that I've fallen out with them, in any dramatic way. We've just decided not to stay in touch. And that's what it's been: a decision, a conscious decision, because it's not difficult to stay in touch with people nowadays, there are so many different ways of doing it. But as you get older, I think that some friendships start to feel increasingly redundant. You just find yourself asking, "What's the point?" And then you stop.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsYearsMeanDifferentSeemsLastsLostDifficultDecisionNumbersConsciousMy FriendsDecidedAskingFallenDifferent WaysDramaticFinding YourselfRedundant Book:The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim Source: The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim