David Johansen Quotes

I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.

David Johansen

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MindMeSingingPictureDoingYou

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

Joan Collins

SchoolSisterWritingClassTopLit

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

Joey Santiago

GreatChallengeReadingBeenJust

I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.

Matthew Gray Gubler

FatherMotherAloneMeCrazyImpact

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

Sting

TeachTwoYearsTaught

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

Snoop Dogg

TimeMenLosingRelaxWinWinning

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

Tom Rachman

FamilyBeenEverybodyEverybody Else

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

Michael Phelps

HeroNightYouLateFastGo

Storytelling is always evolving, but if you allow people with new voices and perspectives to come in, you open audiences up to different walks of life.

Jay Ellis

LifePeopleYouNewStorytellingUp

My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives.

Chloe Benjamin

SpiritualMomDivorceAtheistShe

My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous, but they always came from a real place. So even working there, we had to create characters from the people that we knew.

Cheryl Hines

ExperiencePeopleComedyCreateReal

Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help.

William M. Daley

HelpDecideElectionsGeneralVoters

I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film.

Susanne Bier

GoodStartBelieveThoughtYouWay

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