The record business sucks!
Tionne Watkins
Recitation: by Male by Female
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
Stephen Carter
LiveBlackAmericaIntellectualBox
There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.
Simon Sinek
DirectionGivingDifferenceBetween
They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'
Robert B. Parker
Be KindMoneyMeBookSayingColor
It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.
Matisyahu
MusicTimeMeVoiceLongEmotions
I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me.
Mary Gauthier
LifeBusinessMusicTimeReal Estate
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
Michael Tippett
PoetryGoOverSomethingBegins
Mostly I do Iyengar. I like anything that's hard enough to make me cry in class. I like to be pushed over my limit and broken down a little bit.
Lucy Alibar
BrokenMeEnoughDownCryClass
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Jean Cocteau
PoetryOnlyIndispensableKnew
I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.
Drake Bell
LoveMusicActingPersonalMore
Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'
Chris Robinson
MusicEarlySayNinetiesBeenVery
I've never had a stylist, and I've always chosen my own clothes.
Bonnie Wright
ClothesMy OwnNeverAlwaysOwnHad
I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.
Archie Panjabi
MeDriveRememberBackHollywood
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