When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.
Shirley Bassey
Recitation: by Male by Female
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
Joan Didion
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I lived with my mom and sister, so I'm more used to dealing with women.
Jeremy Sisto
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I think the films that work the best are the ones that seem to be about one thing but then, under the surface, bubbling away, are lots more important questions that you're not really aware of, and when you leave the cinema, your mind is ablaze with different thoughts!
Andrew Haigh
WorkBestMindThoughtsThinkYou
In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.
Subcomandante Marcos
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Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost.
Sissy Spacek
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You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.
Trent Reznor
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All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.
Tony Abbott
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Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. He just let them sing whatever they wanted, and it became the best record company in America.
Tony Bennett
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
Robert Burns
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No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.
Michele Bachmann
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Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.
Miranda Lambert
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I hate myself because I am not beautiful.
Judith Moore
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