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John Steinbeck Quotes

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968

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Advice You Know Want Only How

Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones where I don't understand their pain or their anguish, they are the characters that appeal to me.

Pain People Me You Dark Understand

One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Music Relationship Time Paris First

There aren't too many things that make you feel better than a little kid seeing you, yelling your name, and running to you.

Jean Louisa Kelly

Name Better Feel You Seeing Kid

There're a lot of rules to basketball.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Basketball Rules Lot

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Freedom Day Creative Back More Had

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.

Girl Baby Friday Enjoy Movies Old

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

Work Story Think Better Enough Try

I think about museums often. There are things that I want museums to do that they often don't. For me, I like it when there's a system within the museum that can continuously change - whether it's a museum that is nomadic or one that's designed so the building can shape-shift. I like restless spaces, and I want to be engaged.

Change Me Building Think Museum

One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.

Great Ocean New York River You New

Michael Jackson was my friend before he was anything else. I saw him, and I would say, 'Oh my God, I know him...' And I would think, 'I'm so flipping lucky.'

Friend God Think Know Say Lucky

While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.

Health Depression Struggle Stress

Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.

Austan Goolsbee

Look Dispute Deficit Increased

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