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I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.

TobyMac

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MusicOpportunityTruthBeautiful

When I first started singing - before 'Treat Me Like Fire' when I was working with a vocal coach - I realized that I wasn't even breathing when I was singing.

Jillian Hervey

FireMeSingingTreatFirstCoach

I know sometimes my Twitter feed is intense, but I take it as a friendly void to scream into. I don't have another way to be.

Jenny Slate

KnowSometimesWayFriendlyTake

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

John Muir

HeartAloneTravelSilenceDustGet

When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.

John Lasseter

InstinctsJustKidsMakingMadeHe

I'm a director because I directed a movie. And if I have any advice for people, it's, 'Go write something; go direct it. If that's what you have a desire to do, go do it. If the movie stinks, just put it on the shelf and try to do it again.'

Jeff Nichols

PeopleAdviceYouGoDesireTry

There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the night before.

Mike Myers

JoyPeopleNightKnowSecretIdea

I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in the ghetto - to get me to there. A lot of it had to do with 'Stand and Deliver' and 'Dead Poet's Society.' It does help you. It inspires you. It definitely did for me.

Michael Pena

SchoolMeMomSocietyStandHelp

Out of 3,500 students in my high school, I was the only openly professing Christian kid. Obviously there were challenges. 'Only old and stupid people believe.'

Miroslav Volf

SchoolPeopleChallengesStupidHigh

Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together.

Jared Polis

TogetherPeopleGet TogetherYou

We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.

Dick Van Patten

DogFoodThinkWillWayRoof

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

Donald Ray Pollock

MusicWritingListenMonsterMagnet

Initially, I got into the business to do drama. I never really thought I would be doing sci-fi films.

Cole Hauser

BusinessThoughtDoingDramaNever

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