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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.
If you feel you're being condescended to and not taken seriously in the discussion, that can make people feel defensive.
What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.
I think comedy is incredibly discriminated against. It is one of the most enjoyed yet most condescended art forms in the world. It's the same thing with hip-hop.
Every sleep doctor I've talked to said it was an urban legend that you shouldn't wake up a sleepwalker. All that will happen is that you will get condescended to.
I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.