Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
Seamus Heaney
Recitation: by Male by Female
It's an incredibly supportive and friendly field. Older people want to foster and help younger people. Which is not true of all creative fields, but it is true of comics, and it is true of radio.
Jessica Abel
CreativePeopleHelpWantTrue
That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
Michael Shannon
GreatYourselfYouActingPretend
I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.
Dick Dale
TimeMeYouBuildWayClock
More than the hits, flops will have an impact on my career. In fact, flops helped me shape my career. They made me look at things from a different angle.
Chiranjeevi
MeImpactLookCareerWillMore
I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!
Chris Young
CompanyFuneralWonderingWellOnce
No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.
Christine Pelosi
PoliticalPhilosophyRepublicanAny
There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up among simple people, and their stories just shattered me. It was painful that no one but me was listening to them.
Svetlana Alexievich
HistorySimplePeopleMeListening
You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.
Peter Jackson
LifeYouLookMiserableAlways
In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.
Thomas Frank
BusinessAmericaDoneTrueWayTask
My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'
Ricky Whittle
CharacterPlayGoKnowEmotion
One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn't pay electricity.
Marina Abramovic
GoodArtPerformanceFreeDoingYou
I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.
Lionel Richie
MeUpWestGrandBuckMuch
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