Geraldine Brooks Quotes

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

Geraldine Brooks

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BlessingHabitPeopleListeningAsk

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

Tony Williams

WriteEverybodyDrummersLeast

I think about the very truth that changed my life. I want to put good things in my music.

Trip Lee

LifeGoodMusicTruthGood Things

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

Rita Rudner

ClassMuscleOutGotBecauseMine

In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment.

Ronnie Musgrove

FamilyEnvironmentMy OwnAbility

I've had letters from people who have read my articles and said, 'I'm a guy, I'm 18, and I've not come out to my mom and dad yet, but it was so nice to hear your story, and you know, I wish your article would have been longer, because you gave me hope for the future.'

Luke Evans

FutureHopePeopleMeMomStory

Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you're not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it's understood.

Jason Isbell

SongYouArgumentSometimesRhetoric

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

Dick Cavett

BrainCuriosityWeirdDreamMore

The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system.

Douglas Rushkoff

PeopleThoughtAppleWayiPhoneBig

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

Chris Pine

BadWhyMatterIndividualReasons

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

Boris Spassky

QualityWorldChampionThinkPlay

The truth is, I mostly thought about 'Accidental Racist' in terms of my fans. This song was meant to generate discussion among the people who listen to my albums. What I was most worried about is that my fan base would think that I was preaching to them.

Brad Paisley

TruthPeopleSongThinkThought

Shooting the music video for 'Party' on Thailand's Ko Samui Island was such a blast.

Tiffany Hwang

MusicPartyIslandShootingThailand

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