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Joni Mitchell Quotes

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 7, 1943

Topics

Daughter Money Place Lost Up Take

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

Nature Me Easy Ready Enemy My Own

One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy.

Learning Money People Looking You

Birds are hard to draw. I read recently that Katsuhiro Otomo also says he has trouble drawing animals, and while it made me feel better, it didn't make it easier for me.

Me Birds Better Feel Drawing Hard

I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats.

Music Me Mom Start Stop Play

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.

Music People Brain Free Think You

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

Eye Doubt See Us No Doubt Intended

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

Life Alone Growing Up Color Border

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

Style Proud Pictures Never Craft

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.

Important The Most Important Most

The English experience has greatly enriched me, and I'd like to carry on as manager.

Experience Me Manager Carry English

Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.

Annabella Sciorra

Time Pressure Questions Chair You

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.

Suzanne Collins

War Me Talking Down Question Years

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