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Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments.

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Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

John Boyne

ChildrenDownTalkYoungerReaders

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

John Burroughs

GrowthGreatBirdWiseFreeColor

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

AgeMenGrowAttentionSayPay

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

Maxim Gorky

ChildrenBetterYouWayWriteSame

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

Tom Lehrer

TemperamentReallyPerformer

The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing it professionally, which has never been my thing.

Tom Petty

BookDoingYouRulesNeverRadio

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Rosanne Cash

LifeSuccessMeThinkMy LifeGoing

Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

Martina McBride

PeopleMeBelieveToleranceRight

I'm always flattered when people on the far Left manufacture a new version of being 'offended.' They can be quite creative in finding something that hurts their feelings.

Mike Huckabee

CreativePeopleFindingFeelingsNew

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

Minka Kelly

ActingCaliforniaOutPursueGet

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

Joyce Grenfell

HopeSorryLookBackStrangeGet

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Joseph Pulitzer

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