Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
Recitation: by Male by Female
The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.
Anat Cohen
MeMoreClarinetThanChose
A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.
John Niven
CharacterTimeMeWorldLifestyle
No pharmaceutical company is making money by selling biological knowledge - they make money by selling chemicals. So getting as much of that knowledge as possible into the efficiency of the Web-commerce world is going to make it faster to find those chemicals.
John Wilbanks
KnowledgeMoneyWorldMaking Money
You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.
Steve Earle
RelationshipWordsPeopleWorldYou
The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like 'Boardwalk', 'Thrones', 'True Blood' but also female-centered comedies like 'Enlightened', 'Veep' and 'Girls'.
Sue Naegle
BestJobBloodTrueLikeMaking
The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.
Tommy Lee Jones
LifeHopeQualityCreativeMeGreed
It was hard for me to leave the nest, but my mom is super proud of me. She said, 'You became independent really quickly, and I'm so proud of you,' but she misses me all the same.
Mirai Nagasu
MeMomProudYouSaidIndependent
People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.
Jayson Blair
PeopleMediaYouLookNewsSaid
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
Jonathan Swift
SameBecauseOurFondAnother
Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening abroad. In the Philippines, where I grew up, grassroots organizers used text messaging to help overthrow a president.
Jose Antonio Vargas
TechnologyPoliticsInternetHelpUp
I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.
Dennis Franz
WorkTimeThinkEndRelationships
In many ways, the South can be very traditional and confining. And what is interesting to me is how women find their way around it. Those obstacles create an amazing sense of humor, of fun, and, ultimately, of integrity. The fiercest and savviest women I have ever known are the women I grew up with.
Connie Britton
WomenIntegrityHumorFunAmazing
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