Anouska Hempel Quotes

The champagne tastes the same if you're sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better.

Anouska Hempel

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BetterYouLookBackSittingSame

When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.

Robert P. McCulloch

LifeFatherPainMeStrongLoved

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

Stephen Sondheim

MusicWritingBecauseLyricFell

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

Shirley Chisholm

ChairYouTableBringSeatGive

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.

Tre Cool

ThinkWorthTakeCutThanJam

Come join us; see the reality of what I have to do to achieve what I achieve. There are no cutting corners.

Mo Farah

RealityAchieveSeeUsComeJoin

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

Lord Mountbatten

BelieveVanityGoodnessI Believe

I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day - the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills - have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks.

Jojo Moyes

TimeBestDayWordsSchoolBrain

I quit comics in 1988 and trained as a bus driver. I used to drive those big Greyhound coaches out of New York Port Authority and down to Princeton, New Jersey. It was, hands down, the best job I ever had, and I profoundly regret having left it. I kept that job the entire time I was on staff at DC Comics in the '90s.

Christopher Priest

TimeBestJobNew YorkDriveRegret

I don't watch what I eat, because the concept seems exhausting to me.

Christina Tosi

MeEatWatchSeemsBecauseConcept

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

Chuck D

LoveLookingBlackTryingYouLook

It's a terrific honor. To be associated with the number of people who represent the Cradle of Coaches, it's sort of unreal in a sense.

Ara Parseghian

PeopleHonorSenseWhoRepresent

It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child.

Scott Weiland

LoveLove IsChildYouPerson

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