I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
Billy Corgan
Recitation: by Male by Female
A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.
Andy Dunn
TimeMomentConflictSeeingFlaws
I'm a Jewish son of Russian-Hungarian heritage parents. Humor was very important. My whole goal was to make my parents laugh. And my whole strategy as a young man was, if I could make them laugh, I could have enough time to figure out what to do next.
Jeffrey Tambor
SonTimeHumorManParentsStrategy
I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
ServiceWillAlwaysTipBeenEven
I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.
Tony Judt
MoneyParentsThinkLondonMy Own
When we started making 'Where You Live', I bought a bunch of Polaroid cameras in so that people could record the experience. Some of those pictures are in the CD sleeve.
Tracy Chapman
LiveExperiencePeopleYouPictures
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.
Rob Sheffield
LifeMomentMemoryMeSongSurprise
I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
Mary Gordon
LifeFatherGreatJobJoyMe
To be honest, I was never really interested in theatre as a kid.
Michael Weston
TheatreNeverKidHonestInterested
Government influences your life every day. If there's a war, they're not drafting guys my age.
Mike Quigley
LifeAgeDayGovernmentWarYour
I love how it feels to unwind by the ocean.
Miranda Rae Mayo
LoveOceanUnwindHowI LoveFeels
I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.'
Dick Gregory
PeopleYouHouseWhiteWantTell
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
David Walliams
LifeRealityYouMoreRealWhatever
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