To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen
Recitation: by Male by Female
When I make a record with My Morning Jacket, I love what those guys do, so I don't have a need to play bass or drums or anything, because we're doing that as a unit.
Jim James
LoveMorningDoingPlayJacketNeed
Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
John Burroughs
NatureGoodBadGood And BadWhy
Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.
John Carpenter
WorkHard WorkLiveTruthPeople
Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering to people who don't.
Max Richter
GratitudeSleepPeopleOutWell
I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.
John Lithgow
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I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
Stephen King
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It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.
Martin Seligman
SurpriseBetterInterestingActing
I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.
Micky Dolenz
KidEntertainerSinceEver
Brooklyn is definitely the only place to live in the New York area. I love Brooklyn. Go Brooklyn!
Michael Pitt
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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
Judi Dench
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I started rockin' the BowTie when I was a rookie with the New York Giants.
Dhani Jones
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