Shane McAnally Quotes

One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don't get to insert their own characters. I don't want the audience thinking about the gay guy who wrote the song.

Shane McAnally

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SongThinkingToolsSomeoneYouGay

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

Jennifer Damiano

MyselfNightTryingImportantAlways

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

Andrew Wyeth

WinterStoryFeelLandscapeYou

Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent?

Robert Lepage

FactsRememberImportantWhyMore

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Tom Wolfe

PaintingGoSeeWithoutDaysTheory

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

Martina Navratilova

LivePastYouNothingIn The Past

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

Dennis Prager

WarPeopleSufferingWorldReading

Some of the best casts I've ever worked with have been dogs.

Christopher Plummer

BestDogsBeenSomeEverCasts

We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well.

Connie Chung

DayPeopleStoryNewsWantDepth

I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.

Corey Taylor

MorningThoughtsYouDownThreeUp

I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.

Allison Tolman

Ten YearsYearsThingsWorkingBeen

On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

Wim Wenders

ChangePeopleWorldLanguageChanges

Films are always different from books.

William Kircher

AlwaysDifferentBooksFilms

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