The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes de Mille
Recitation: by Male by Female
I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. This was more true when I was living in California, when I didn't lead a writer's life at all.
Joan Didion
LifePeopleThinkLivingTrueMore
The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes out. The urban, the cultivated, is hidden or negatived.
John Burroughs
WinterSolitudeWildernessCountry
Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
Tom Shadyac
HomeCultureWalkLieNightVegas
I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
Russell Simmons
CommunityPeopleSufferingHelpWant
If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'
Miley Cyrus
AnimalMeMomSwimmingYouBad
I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.
Lorrie Moore
WorldCreateWantKindRealExist
Every fight is a new fight.
Jose Aldo
FightNewEvery
If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.
Jonathan Ive
ObstaclesDoingYouNewAnything
If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.
Chris Gibson
WordsMeaningConservativeThen
As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.
Corazon Aquino
PowerPeaceKeepI CameShallCame
I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.
Annie Baker
TryingStopVermontTownSetting
I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.
Sebastian Thrun
GoodComplicatedWayExplainTake
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