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Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

Avi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 23, 1937

Topics

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Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

John B. S. Haldane

SciencePoliticsPoliticalWellThan

What's amazing about 'White Heat' is that, even for its time, it's very truthful in the way it deals with violence.

John Hillcoat

TimeAmazingViolenceWhiteWay

I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.

Michael Heisley

BusinessOperationsBuySideCome

We will work toward maintaining the status quo for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in order to bring the greatest benefits and well-being to the Taiwanese people.

Tsai Ing-wen

WorkPeacePeopleWell-BeingWill

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.

Rob Schneider

SuccessPeopleSomeoneDoingSee

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

Joss Whedon

LoveYouFrameBuyBecausePicasso

I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.

Johnny Weissmuller

LostRaceNeverEvenFreestyle

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

Daya

GoodBestDayThoughtsGood Things

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

Cory Michael Smith

CollegeJazzPianoPianistStudied

When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.

Philip Selway

WritingFirstYearsDrummingStarted

The No. 1 thing is to write the book that you love and then hope that it finds an audience with the same taste as you. I think I've done that, and that's lucky.

Sylvia Day

LoveHopeBookThinkYouDone

MySpace is an addiction.

Paulo Coelho

AddictionMyspace

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