Rufus Wainwright Quotes

I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I'm stronger for it - and I have a tougher skin as a result.

Rufus Wainwright

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DecisionThinkResultStrongerYou

I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

Jim Crace

HeartSelfKnowFictionSinking

I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.

Jill Scott

WaterMePoolCarryFloatJust

The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.

Matthew Ramsey

WritingSongProcessSomeoneChoose

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Roselyn Sanchez

StartLanguageLearnActingGoTake

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

Mary Harris Jones

RailroadStrikeGoldenFarmersWest

If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can.

Mary Steenburgen

GrowAdviceYouWantLivingGrow Up

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

Mike Epps

PeopleYouKnowWantMakeThem

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

Louis Farrakhan

GoodBrotherSisterEvilYouWay

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

Joseph Wambaugh

PeopleLookingProcessSidesJury

I don't believe that the U.S. needs to take a police role. I think it needs to support African nations that have said they want to become a part of the solution.

Don Cheadle

PoliceSupportBelieveThinkSaid

I don't discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I've given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.

Christopher Paolini

MyselfBelieveSayWillMy OwnOwn

A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Brian Floca

GreatWordsMountainsAppreciation

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