Tom Waits Quotes

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Tom Waits

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It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.

Jeremy Corbyn

FearImportantDefendAbilityAct

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Ann Beattie

PeopleRight PersonStoryYouPerson

There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?

Andy Grammer

GreatMeSongToughTryingYou

When pop and rock were taking over from jazz, and Sinatra was covering a Beatles song, it was all very new. I get to come at it from a different direction.

Michael Buble

SongDirectionNewJazzRockOver

I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.

Steve Aoki

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You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.

Rob Gronkowski

LifeLiveTimeFocusFootballYou

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

Ruth Pitter

LifeTimeFallWayEmotionHard

'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.

Luke Bracey

TimeFriendsLovingLivingWatching

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.

Judith Krantz

HeartAloneYou Can Do ItShopping

When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.

Chuck D

HistoryTravelWorldUnderstanding

Living by yourself, technically by yourself, at the age of 16 is not easy to do.

Anthony Bennett

AgeYourselfEasyLivingTechnically

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

Paul Thomas Anderson

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