I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.
George H. W. Bush
Recitation: by Male by Female
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.
Michael Connelly
BeachWoodsStoryBodyNewsJournal
I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.
Amy Sedaris
MomentThinkWeirdFeelYouPerson
We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!
Trey Anastasio
YearStopThreeNeverForeverGoing
I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.
Josh Trank
LifeCreativityCreativeYouRules
Mostly, whenever I'm booked to do instruction, I just play a little bit and get people to ask questions. We'll play some music for 'em, 'til somebody hollers out, 'Play 'Milk Cow Blues' or 'Play 'San Antonio Rose.' We play requests and demonstrate our music.
Johnny Gimble
MusicPeopleRoseQuestionsPlay
Both 'OC' and 'Everwood,' there were people on set where you learned to stay away from them on a bad day.
Chris Pratt
DayPeopleBad DayYouBadStay
Concealed-carry reciprocity, I believe, undermines American gun laws by forcing states to accept carry-permitting standards of every other state, including some states that have no standards at all.
Brad Schneider
BelieveGunAmericanAcceptLaws
A friend in need is a pest.
Bobby Heenan
FriendNeedPest
I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.
Bob Beauprez
WorkDailyJobGovernmentPeople
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
Arnold Palmer
GreatMindPerformanceDoingPlaying
In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
Alice Munro
DayWritingThinkSomeoneNever
There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam.
Alija Izetbegovic
NatureManWorldPossibilitiesThree
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