Alex Chiu Quotes

None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists.

Alex Chiu

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DayBelieveDieSayAcceptNever

I won't talk or deal with a young writer unless I sense he has utterly given his life over to it. It's a waste of my time. If they don't feel 'called' - why in God's name would you do this?

Jim Harrison

LifeGodTimeNameFeelYou

I'm just a citizen of the world.

Jeff Berwick

WorldCitizenJust

My grandmother and mother were from Italy, so I was raised Catholic. That kind of just meant going to church on Easter and Christmas. I saw a radical transformation in my family when they started going to a Christian church. I watched them fall in love with God.

Sonny Sandoval

FamilyLoveMotherGodChurchFall

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?

Mitch Hedberg

CoolJustHippopotamusReally

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.

Louis Susman

MoneyThinkReasonSeemSomeAnyone

People cried nepotism every time I was on the field. But I played for a lot of coaches before I played for my father, and I started for everybody. He wasn't the first person who all the sudden put me in the starting lineup.

Josh McDaniels

FatherTimePeopleMePersonFirst

I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was.

Dev Hynes

MusicTeacherSchoolMeSayingYou

When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time... Of course it's not remotely like seeing a baby for the first time, but I can remember with each book what room I was in when I opened it. That would be excitement, though, I think. Not pride.

Colm Toibin

TimeBabyBookThinkPrideRemember

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Constantin Brancusi

ArtSimplicitySelfRealThings

Documentaries make a difference.

Paul Watson

Make A DifferenceDifferenceMake

There have been times when people have told me to lose weight or tone up certain areas... It hurts no matter who you are and how skinny you are or how big you are.

Nina Agdal

PeopleMeYouLoseMatterBig

At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick up the guitar to develop the song. Other times I just write without any melodies, and I end up using those lyrics when I think I have the appropriate instrumental that would bring out and depict the emotions of what I have written.

Nneka

SongThinkGuitarEndEmotionsHead

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