Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.
David Byrne
Recitation: by Male by Female
I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that.
Jennifer Egan
HopeTimeAmazingMeWritingLong
My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.
John Legend
ListenYearsMotownLikedLotUntil
Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they're not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning that life is fragile. You have to acknowledge that side of life to be able to then offer comfort and hope and goodwill.
Matt Haig
LifeLearningHopeChildrenThinking
The public is very forgiving. So we're not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can't be obtained. But if you're straightforward and honest and your constituents trust you, they'll help you get through the times when you fall short.
John Shimkus
TrustPerfectionShortHelpYou
As a late teenager, I had some puppy fat on me, and I noticed that I could put on weight. I have always been very disciplined because my mother was very beautiful, a very pretty woman, but she was immobilised by obesity. At her biggest, she was about 17 stone. And she was always on some sort of fad diet.
Trudie Styler
MotherBeautifulWomanMeFatDiet
I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
Tom Cruise
PeopleWinningThinkLearnYouMore
I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.
Ronnie Montrose
MeInfluencePowerfulSeeingPage
I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.
Debra Granik
LoveAnimalProcessYouWrongGo
Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.
Chris Stapleton
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None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
FreeMindsNoneOurOurselves
All business must have a social license to operate.
Sharan Burrow
BusinessSocialMustLicenseOperate
'Reversible Errors' is about the limits of the law to define who committed ultimate evil, to define what ultimate evil is, to allow the million arbitrary factors to make this a meaningful punishment, and finally to say, 'Are we really accomplishing what we wanted to accomplish? Are those anxieties relieved?' I don't think so.
Scott Turow
LawEvilLimitsThinkAccomplish
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