I don't know why I write what I write.
Bret Easton Ellis
Recitation: by Male by Female
When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.' But anything can happen to a Chinese American girl - just as much of the canon of English literature involves white men or women.
Jenny Zhang
WomenGirlMenWritingAmericanYou
I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.
Angelina Jolie
PeopleWorldHandsComplicatedHead
In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can see that through them came Wagner and Mahler and Schoenberg and Berg. And then came Tracey Emin. And I can see it all as one downward path.
John Tavener
LovePathMeditationLateI CanSee
What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?
Stevie Ray Vaughan
LoveI AmMeTryingYouTake
Knowing the strike zone is very important, but I think the first thing is knowing yourself, knowing what things you do well.
Tony Gwynn
YourselfThinkYouImportantKnowing
There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the most important pathways to its achievement begins with the desire to seek what is good - for the self, for those we love, for 'our neighbor,' for our earth.
Maryanne Wolf
LifeLoveGoodAchievementSelf
I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.
Mike Krzyzewski
LifeFamilyLoveSuccessTrue Love
I'm not a girly girl.
Millie Bobby Brown
GirlGirly
My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.
Lisa Snowdon
LifeParentsThinkBetterYouWrong
I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.
Jean Craighead George
AnimalsOutWatchRollJustWould
When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.
Jose Gonzalez
GoodGreatYourselfMeHairSong
I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.
Brian K. Vaughan
AngryMeStartConfusedWriteForm
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