It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W. C. Fields
Recitation: by Male by Female
It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.
Jim C. Hines
SurviveTryingPerfectAdaptBreak
I think the one I'm most proud of as a songwriter is 'Breaking Your Heart' because it was just a different style for me. It was very - I feel like it was very old-timey Patsy Cline. It's got a very '50s feel to it, and I pushed myself to write those lyrics very intimately with my co-writer Ted Bruner.
Jessie James Decker
HeartStyleMyselfMeProudThink
I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers.
Steve Kanaly
GoodSaidOldRealWearCowboy
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.
Stanley Crouch
TimeExperienceJobPeopleViolence
The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.
Trey Gowdy
UnitedLeftSouth CarolinaHeStates
Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.
Michael O'Brien
ImaginationEvilTemptationProject
Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.
Mohsin Hamid
LifeSoupChancePowerfulDownGo
Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.
Mira Nair
LifeCharacterAmericanKnowSide
Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.
Jonathan Lethem
PlanDiscomfortMasterMuchPart
I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.
Donna Mills
LovedBecauseMusicalsDancerAlso
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
Donald T. Regan
DoneThingsLevelWouldDishonest
I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.
Donald Trump
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