In every era, "A Star Is Born" accepts pasteurized pop success as the reward for making it.
As I watched Hillary Rodham Clinton, a woman who has been at least tangentially on the political stage since before I was born, accept the Democratic party's nomination for President of the United States, I cried.
I was in his shoes before and now I'm the one making the dreams come true". It has been more than seven months since Jay-Z, 35, born Shawn Carter, accepted an offer from Vivendi Universal, the world's biggest record corporation, to assume the presidency of Def Jam, its seminal rap label.
He applied to a number of graduate programs, and, two days before his daughter, Amaya, was born, he was accepted at one of them: Juilliard.
As early as 1904, George Edwin Taylor, a newspaperman born in Arkansas, accepted the nomination of the all-black National Liberty Party to run, but even much later in the century the prospect of a black Presidency was almost always a discussion held in the spirit of dreaming.
The Dutch-born director accepted the prize on Gulpilil's behalf.
It wasn't that many years ago that several American-born women accepted call-ups to Mexico's national team rather than wait in vain for a spot on U.S. Soccer's star-filled roster.
Born sufferers, we accept hardship as our fated lot — otherwise, why live here?
Earlier this week, Valls said the removal of a person's nationality "is a legitimate question that arises regarding the consequences to which a person exposes themselves when they decide to attack the nation to which they belong because they were born there or have been accepted there".
