When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.
Stephen Sondheim
Recitation: by Male by Female
If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.
Angus Deaton
MoneyGovernmentPeopleThinkYou
The first time I met Jon Stewart was at the press conference that Comedy Central held to announce Jon would be the new host of 'The Daily Show,' which back then was not called 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.'
Stephen Colbert
DailyTimeComedyBackNewFirst
If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.
RM
LoveYourselfLove YourselfThink
With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.
Ron Howard
WorkSpaceDoneBecauseWellSure
People have these ideas about comic books and their adaptations as flashy and sort of surface-y, broad-strokes-type projects, but they're not, really.
Ruth Negga
PeopleIdeasBooksComicAboutSort
When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.
Miriam Toews
LegendPersonHumanOverEternity
I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.
Lucy Dacus
PeopleRoadBecomeWriteArtists
If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.
Lisa Marie Presley
GoodAloneMindBusyThinkDevil
I supported Barack Obama. I wasn't very quiet about my support. I thought he was going to be a refreshing change to George Bush. But what has happened is that we have an election that's become a single-issue election, and that issue is Barack Obama. And he's an icon to both sides.
Jonathan Turley
ChangeSupportThoughtElection
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
Clifford Geertz
ResearchCriticismFindOutPoint
I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of playing in the Olympics.
Brooke Sweat
Growing UpDreamGrowingSayTrue
Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.
Anthony Anderson
YouHeightsBeyondMoreSeeYour
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