I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
Curt Schilling
Recitation: by Male by Female
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
Joan Didion
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Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I often wonder if I should adopt a cause to call my own or start tweeting inspirational messages. And when tragedy strikes and the world takes to social media, is it now my responsibility to respond with #RIPs and #prayfors?
Max Joseph
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I took a musician friend of mine to a Rolling Stone concert once, and all he did was cringe. I asked him what was wrong, and he said, 'Keith Richards' guitar is out of tune.' But 'Tumbling Dice' still sounded great to me.
Robert Hilburn
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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
Johnny Carson
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The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
Steven Pinker
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I learned everything I know from leaving the E Street Band. And of course, one of the things I learned is, I never should have left.
Steven Van Zandt
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Compared to boxing, acting is more difficult. I have learnt martial arts and boxing since childhood. So, they were easier.
Ritika Singh
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I know I'm not going to book everything I go in on, and that's just the nature of the business. You have to keep hustling and not get down on it. You have to keep at it and find your way in. Everybody's story is different.
Rob Brown
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I've gone into auditions, and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo, and then I open my mouth, and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.'
Ruth Negga
MeThinkYouMouthBornKind
'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's so much more about the feeling - desperation - than any kind of story at all. There's very little imagery or character development; it's just about a deep and desperate search for something.
Julia Holter
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It's so funny; I grew up in the Midwest, I have two older brothers, and you're just as competitive playing football as you are eating pickled eggs, or trying to kill zombies. As long as you don't take it too far, I think it's a good way for people to relate.
Jose Pablo Cantillo
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