Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes

The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

Garth Risk Hallberg

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Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Jeff Tweedy

NatureWritingEasyYouSometimes

I like film books at the bottom of the barrel and art books at the top. 'The Ghastly One,' by Jimmy McDonough, is a hilarious biography of one of the most hideous directors who ever picked up a movie camera - Andy Milligan.

John Waters

ArtCameraTopUpBottomFilm

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

St. Vincent

MemoryGuitarI CanNowMuscleJust

We've never been your typical family. We've moved a lot.

Stacie Orrico

FamilyNeverBeenYourLotMoved

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Socrates

LifeGoodDeathManEvilGood Man

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

Robert Duvall

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After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

Mitch McConnell

BusinessMoneySmallCreateNewSay

I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House - from some of our impulses, shall I say, that we'd like to pursue.

Mitch McConnell

ConstitutionThinkHouseWhiteSay

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

Mohamed ElBaradei

TechnologyThinkIndiaNowThree

I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.

Jay Baruchel

HeartLeafCanadaEarthMoviesOver

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

Diane Kruger

MusicBeautifulMeNowCryListen

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

Donald Sutherland

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