Every writer is an outsider.
Andrew Sean Greer
Recitation: by Male by Female
Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.
Jimmy Cliff
MusicWritingSongThinkSomeone
There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!
Andy Dunn
GreatPeopleThinkAlwaysLastFive
There are a lot of actors who try to get records made and try to make record deals, and everybody goes, 'Ugh.' It used to be expected in the entertainment business. I mean look at Sinatra, Bing Crosby. All these guys started out as singers.
John Mellencamp
BusinessLookEntertainmentTryMean
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
Anita Brookner
GoodWinGiftYouBoldGood Fortune
We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.
John Sherman Cooper
TruthTimeFindDutyWillSomething
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
John Sladek
GodNutsMostConventionalNor
Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesn't borrow money and mortgage my future.
Steve Stivers
FutureMoneyJobCongressMortgage
Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.
Roy Acuff
OriginalBlueprint
One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.
Mike Quigley
EqualityYearsFiftyGettysburgMany
My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.
Mithun Chakraborty
SonMeBetterTryHimAlways
I'd rather be at home with 12 people around the table.
Dom DeLuise
HomePeopleTableRatherAround
One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
Chellie Pingree
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