I was raised by a single mother.
Josh Peck
Recitation: by Male by Female
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.
Andres Segovia
WorkBuildingStandDownPlaceUp
There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.
Michael Fassbender
StressWorldInformationManifest
My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me.
Steve Garvey
HeartMeEndRelationshipsPersonal
I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.
Robert Boswell
ChangeGrowUnderstandingCreating
I try to do one thing a day that makes me proud of myself.
Rita Ora
MyselfDayMeProudTryOne Thing
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
Mary Shelley
GodPeopleThinkTeachHimRather
Throughout my career, no matter what I've done or what decision I've made, I've made it with my family first. My priority was taking care of my family while I was taking care of business.
Mindy Grossman
FamilyBusinessDecisionCareCareer
You can't refuse to move forward when you're educating in design, because that's what we're asking students to do the whole time.
Louise Wilson
TimeForwardDesignYouMoveAsking
The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
Jordan Peterson
ThinkUsMadeThanTVNarrow
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
Douglas Coupland
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I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.
Christine McVie
MoneyThinkPrettyUsedWellGet
The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize.
Colm Toibin
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