Paul Simon Quotes

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

Paul Simon

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LiveHistoryPeopleYouBecomeOut

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

Mary McCarthy

GoodMomentActionRegretThinkBad

In my short career, I tend not to repeat myself. I have no interest in redoing something. Sometimes that makes people angry, and maybe it's not the best thing for me commercially. But it's the best thing for me artistically, and it's the best thing for my heart.

Mike Posner

HeartMyselfBestAngryPeopleMe

It's a deeper connection when you meet someone online and talk to them every day.

Michelle Phan

DaySomeoneYouConnectionEvery Day

For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.

Moby

MusicBetterChooseI CanNeverSee

I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.

Joshua Oppenheimer

PositiveHopeSilenceFeelLook

If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.

Christopher Paolini

BlueMeMoonYouProfessionalThree

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

Brendan Myers

CompassionPeopleGenerosityValues

Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say 'Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%.'

Anne Wojcicki

YouInformationWantWhyGenetic

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

Arthur Smith

SkyCloudsTreesLandscapePerfect

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?

Philip Pullman

TodayMeStoryEndProblemFirst

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Sylvia Plath

WidowWordItselfConsumes

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Peter Marshall

TroubleKnowWantUsWellMost

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