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Tyka Nelson Quotes

Inside of me, it was like my soul and what I had to do to feed my family was always split. I was writing lyrics while I was supposed to be working. I'd look up, and there's my supervisor.

Tyka Nelson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 18, 1960

Topics

Family Soul Me Writing My Soul Look

I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.

Jess Walter

Myself Coffee Breakfast Basketball

I thought 'The Humans' was a beautiful play.

Joel Grey

Beautiful Thought Play Humans

I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.

Meg Wolitzer

Music Youth Listening Think Powerful

I'm sauteing asparagus, Brussels sprouts,broccoli, some boneless, skinless chicken breast, some halibut. That's about it; that's all I'm allowed. That's what's legal for me to saute.

Ron Funches

Me Legal Chicken Some Asparagus

When you're a little kid, you have nerve. I'd walk right up to whoever was recording and say, 'Hey, dude, what's the lick of the week?'

Dimebag Darrell

Walk Week You Say Right Kid

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

Brit Marling

Truth Never Always Just Stories

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

Peter Bart

Stars Value Brand Behavior You Top

The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.

Norman Davies

War World Still Second Myths Intact

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

Ryne Sandberg

Game Place Nervous September Get

I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.

Lydia Millet

Never Leave Seem Left Though

One of the benefits of working outside the U.K. is that I don't have to keep fielding media/politicians' enquiries about 'Britishness' and its ills.

Linda Colley

Outside Keep Working Benefits About

Globalisation, technological change, and the move to flexible labour markets has channelled more and more income to rentiers - those owning financial, physical, or so-called intellectual property - while real wages stagnate.

Guy Standing

Change Financial Intellectual More