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Bruce Springsteen Quotes

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

Bruce Springsteen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 23, 1949

Topics

Life Time Writing Rest Interesting

One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.

John Carpenter

Love Music God Today Think Powerful

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

Johan Huizinga

Culture Create Must Continue

It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.

Jenny McCarthy

Time Vacation Child Parents Dinner

I launched 'Lightspeed' magazine in 2010, and from day one, we've had a strict mission to try to have gender parity in the magazine because that was the first hurdle that science fiction and fantasy have been dealing with for a long time.

John Joseph Adams

Science Time Day Gender Mission Try

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

John Lahr

People Crazy Advertising Society

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

John le Carre

Father Me Wind Book Reading End

I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

Michael Ian Black

Age Depression Childhood Think Awake

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill

Die Routine Bureaucracy Disease

Sometimes people don't want to be empowered because they are afraid of being the person to make the decisions.

Shonda Rhimes

People Decisions Person Sometimes

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

Tracey Gold

Yourself Walking You Body Down Dead

That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right.

Jonathan Kellerman

Great Time Job School Space Me

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

Dick Van Dyke

Business Captain Never Radio Out