Nicole Mones Quotes

In my own life I studied music, not creative writing; I see a novel as music - an opening as an overture, themes and subplots as lines in a fugue. The chance to write a novel about a musician boxed in by all kinds of limitations but who plays out his ultimate struggle for freedom at the piano was irresistible.

Nicole Mones

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LifeMusicFreedomStruggleCreative

This is the thing that I think we're all learning from the Chinese: that this merging of messaging, media, and payments together really makes sense to people.

Jeremy Allaire

LearningTogetherPeopleThinkMedia

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Angelina Jolie

LoveMeBadFindGoSometimes

I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through proposals like the GREAT Teachers and Principals Act and the Presidential Teachers Corps.

Michael Bennet

GreatFocusedTeachersThroughAct

Very rarely have I had the opportunity to say lines which I would have said even if I wasn't working in a film.

Amitabh Bachchan

OpportunitySaidSayFilmWorking

Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

Stephen Hough

AngryPeopleSufferingMusiciansGo

When you start playing as young as me, and you've been in front of audiences your entire life, this is literally what I grew up doing.

Trombone Shorty

LifeMeStartDoingYouYoung

I'm always so excited about what I do that I try to get everyone to feel that way.

Missy Franklin

FeelWayTryAlwaysEveryoneGet

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.

Little Richard

DoingDownNobodyWhateverOwnGet

Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

Joyce Maynard

NatureHomeChildFeelPlayKnow

I love being around people.

Chelsea Manning

LovePeopleBeingAroundI Love

I've spent a lot of time being insecure about my body, but it's done so much for me. It's my tool, my vessel for my job.

Christen Press

TimeJobMeBodyDoneTool

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

Bruce Davison

GoodInterestingActorGood Actor

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