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Grace Potter Quotes

Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 20, 1983

Topics

Building House Down New Old Most

I didn't need to be speaker because I needed a fancy title or a big office. I wanted to be speaker so I could lead an effort to deal with the serious issues that are facing our country.

Effort Country Serious Office Need

I'd never done any Beckett before 'Krapp,' and I haven't done any of his other plays since. I've always felt that 'Krapp' is an autobiographical piece.

Done Never Always Piece Before His

Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.

Good Wine Done Critics Industry Lot

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

Music Budget Marketing My Own Choir

There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.

Nature Day Law Every Day Nothing

Increasing education options will give students greater opportunities to succeed in the classroom and allow students to graduate with skill sets necessary to go to college or into a career.

Education College Succeed Career Go

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Music People Me Think Things Sure

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Luciano Pavarotti

Myself Fight Better Possible Try

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Learning Wisdom Awake Wide Sleeps

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

Chuck Palahniuk

Mother Son Caring Book Comedy Dying

I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

Work Trust Commitment You Early Say

I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.

Think Speed Perfect Ability Little

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