Ahmet Zappa Quotes

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

Ahmet Zappa

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MoreBooksWorseReadCoverWanted

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

Jim Harrison

WomanWritingProblemsManyPresents

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

John C. Maxwell

BestPeopleFeelUnderstandOthers

I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.

Jerry Leiber

BusinessMusicRomanticMeThought

I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to bullies.

Joe Wurzelbacher

PolicyBullies

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

John Cusack

LifeFearCourageGreatArtPain

We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.

Jeffrey Eugenides

DepressionDressStartSomeoneKnow

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.

Steven Pinker

TimeJobResearchWritingBookRest

Willie D is one of the first people I worked with.

Mike Dean

PeopleFirstWorkedWillie

Swarm intelligence is like a brain of brains.

Louis B. Rosenberg

IntelligenceBrainBrainsLike

It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.

Doug Baldwin

BusinessPeopleWorldJealousEasy

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

Colm Toibin

PeaceIdeasLongYouGoExist

At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was asked to record the entire album over again with studio musicians. And I said I wouldn't do it, and they basically said, 'Well hey, look, it's going to go in the trash can.' That's the record business, you know.

Bruce Springsteen

BusinessGreatTimeMusiciansLook

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