I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.
Mavis Staples
Recitation: by Male by Female
I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.
Jess Walter
GreatPeopleThinkYouJazzBecome
If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.
John Cusack
PeopleReadingYouPrivacyGoNice
Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.
Rosanne Cash
TimePaintingDeepYouKnowKind
There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.
Russell Wilson
ListenUpSomeShuffleBackstreet
Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.
Mary-Louise Parker
LifeWorkMeCareMy LifeLook
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
Mary Quant
DaughterMyselfTeachersComparison
I loved to go hunting out in the woods and hiking, and that's just not easy anymore. For me, to walk up and down hills in the rough terrain, it just doesn't work very well. It can, but it's three times as hard as it used to be.
Mike Schultz
WorkWalkMeWoodsLovedDown
How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
Lisa Marie Presley
FamilyPeopleEndGlassLivingWay
You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.
Jason Sudeikis
StartYouYoungWantYearsHungry
The world of superheroes is black and white; the world of monsters is not. Sometimes you need evil to fight evil.
Donna Langley
Black And WhiteFightEvilWorldYou
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Colin Powell
BattlePlanEnemyContactSurvives
My Chicago is beautiful and diverse. It was able to give me all parts of the world all in one.
Clemantine Wamariya
BeautifulMeWorldChicagoGive Me
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