Tommy Shaw Quotes

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

Tommy Shaw

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I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

Jennifer Saunders

SmilePeopleFlyWallGoneBeen

I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

Megan Smith

LearningScienceMoneySchoolActive

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

Rodrigo Duterte

LawSocietyChoiceNowObedience

I really love mountain sports, hiking, skiing, and I love to travel and get to know different places and cultures.

Ruth Reinhardt

LoveSportsTravelMountainSkiing

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Russell Baker

InspirationalFearWrongRhetoric

I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.

Jay DeMarcus

PerformanceSongThinkBetterMagic

I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'

Jon Watts

WritingEnergyStoryMomentsMy Own

My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.

Diplo

DayJobEnd Of The DayEndFirst

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

Douglas Coupland

TimeArtSpaceWritingVisualAbout

When you watch my films, you're feeling my heart.

Donnie Yen

HeartYouFeelingWatchFilms

Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a hundred years ago in the last century - it was all about taking risks, it was about doing the job and honing the craft.

Brian Cox

JobRisksDoingTaking RisksChoose

Is Duran's 'No Mas' a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight? For many, it is.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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