Rita Moreno Quotes

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

Rita Moreno

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HomeHeavenNewsWatchingComing

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Jimmy Carter

WifeSwimmingGoDrownGetTroubles

I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

John Cusack

GoodRomanticMeFeelPlaySay

The better day, the worse deed.

Matthew Henry

DayBetterWorseDeed

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Stephen Greenblatt

LoveManPoetryLanguageBodyYoung

I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was for me to sing. Maybe if I'm writing for a rapper, but I'd still write it as though it was for myself and then sometimes I'm actually asked to do the part.

Skylar Grey

MyselfFocusPeopleMeWritingSong

I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed.

Roger Andrew Taylor

MusicMomentTogetherBlueThought

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

PeopleSomewhereWebPayoffLed

I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father.

Mona Simpson

FatherRelationshipTimeChildhood

Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I don't like the song.

Johnny Van Zant

SongListenRadioSenseOutrageous

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Anzia Yezierska

MotherGirlStyleManFreeReach

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.

Arundhati Roy

LoveThinkPoliticalLiteratureDown

The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies, or sometimes added my own harmonies that I've always wanted to sing on the song. And then it just went on from there - singing violin parts and trumpet parts and just trying to emulate the sounds of the instruments.

Petra Haden

MeSingingSongTryingSometimes

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