I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.
Nick Flynn
Recitation: by Male by Female
I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.
Jesse Eisenberg
SuccessGreatPerformanceActorOwn
Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
Joel Coen
EducationFatherMotherAgeDriving
With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.
Mayer Hawthorne
LoveMeSongToughStrongChoose
The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think.
Robert Pinsky
GoodLiveTrustThinkEasySay
As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.
Angie Stone
YouArtistWantAlwaysBoxLittle
As a kid, I was hyperactive and the naughty one in school. I wouldn't listen to anyone and thought I knew best. At home, I was always breaking things and annoying everyone.
Amir Khan
HomeBestSchoolThoughtListenKid
I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people expect out of you.
Robbie Lawler
PeopleWorryYouWriteOutOwn
Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again.
Ruth Reichl
ThinkBigMakeAgainTurkeyOven
It was tough to cope with the pressure of having to talk about menstruation, but now with 'Newsweek' splashing it as the cover story, I thing the point I wished to make has found its mark.
Rupi Kaur
ToughStoryPressureNowTalkPoint
Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.
Mitch Kapor
JanuaryAvailableMarketHitIBMPC
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
Milan Kundera
PeopleWorthGoHumanOutsideExist
I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.
Julia Sweeney
TimeJobPeopleProblemMadWhy
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