When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
Roddy Doyle
Recitation: by Male by Female
I had no blood relatives till I made some.
Andy Dick
LifeBloodRelativesMadeSomeTill
The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons.
Solange Knowles
FashionLateBandMusicianMembers
Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.
Rob Reiner
LifeLovePeopleViolenceEarly
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
Roberto Bolano
DeathBookReadingEndStopLiving
This is the new wave, the new generation of terrorism. It's gone viral. It's very dangerous, and it's very hard to stop.
Michael McCaul
GenerationWaveDangerousStopNew
I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.
Jonathan Richman
MyselfSickNowSometimesRequest
On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.
Wolfgang Tillmans
FocusMeEnjoyExerciseHealthySee
Club DJs don't talk to the crowd.
Rhys Ifans
TalkClubCrowdDJs
I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're writing for adults.
Lynne Reid Banks
WorkChildrenTalentWritingYou
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Kenneth Tynan
CarManDriveWayCriticKnows
There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.
George R. R. Martin
UniverseMagicPrettyLowOther
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
George Jean Nathan
WomenHumorMenGrowSense Of Humor
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