“I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.” FirstsJobsActingRolesTroubleMonthsCoupleSixAgentsSix Months Author:Dean Norris
“The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he 'perceives.” MenTryingKindPlayGivenRolesTroubleExpressionMaterialsPerceptionOrdinaryDataPerceiveConsiderationMaterial ThingsOrdinary ManFoils Author:J. L. Austin
“In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?” RealityRolesTroubleConflictUnderstoodOppositesMotherhoodCop Author:Mary Blakely
“I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.” ThinkingWayLongStoriesKidsTermRolesGrowing UpGrowingTroubleDadModelsMalesRole ModelsProvidingMentorLong WayThink PositiveKids Growing UpMale Role Models Author:Donald Miller
“There's a lot of research on the shift in who deals with money when families get in trouble. In good times, husbands handle the family's finances about 80 percent of the time. But when times turn sour and families start dealing with creditors and managing unpayable bills, women take more active roles.” TurnsDealsRolesTroubleHusbandResearchPercentBillsActiveHandleFinanceGood TimesSourCreditors Author:Elizabeth Warren
“It was a lot to carry out of a childhood--all those textured layers of thwarted dreams rumbling under the fifties patina--but a lot of us did it. In those manicured lives and choreographed marriages there was an often-pronounced loneliness, an emptiness that we would try to fill with our own accomplishments. And our role, the one we would have so much trouble trying to shed later, was simply to be the best little girls in the world, the high- achieving, make-no-waves, properly behaved little kittens.” WorldTryingLittlesDreamGirlRolesTroubleChildhoodAchieveLonelinessWaveAccomplishmentBeing The BestEmptinessLayersShedKitten Author:Anne Taylor Fleming
“They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)” ThinkingMenWellsKindSaidEnoughBodyFilmTurnsStuffDarkRolesTakenTroubleMinutesPositionHairPicksAreasCamerasAssumingPhotographInvisibleNakedDataFancyDigitalSpidersHollowStarksSpraySpider ManTechniciansDigital CamerasHollow Man Author:Kevin Bacon
“I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingImportantSometimesStoriesWaitingForgetRolesKnow HowTroubleShapesSittingDown AndNewspapersReportersReally GreatSitting AroundNewspaper ReportersShutting Down Author:Biz Stone