Ed Kowalczyk Quotes

Lots of human-rights tragedies deserve concerts, but there's something extra with Tibet. It's a spiritual culture, a country rooted in humility and compassion. And among artists, there's a lot of Buddhists, people who want an alternative to basic Christianity, which doesn't offer much.

Ed Kowalczyk

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CultureCompassionSpiritualHumility

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Andrew O'Hagan

FootballFindComplimentsFansZeal

A bad Tweet can cause scandal, shame, even possibly end a politician's career.

Meghan McCain

EndBadCareerShamePolitician

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

Jeff Rich

WorldProfoundSayingsFewVery

I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete.

Simon McBurney

WorkI AmYouFeelingDownEarth

I love that sense of discovery. You're experiencing something for the first time, and your parents aren't in on it, previous generations aren't in on it. It has a chance to belong to you and your generation in a way that nothing has. If 'Pacific Rim' is a fraction of that, I would be very proud.

Travis Beacham

LoveTimeParentsChanceProudYou

I am one of those guys that's an optimist. I am always optimistic. I don't know how you can be any other way.

Rob Riggle

I AmYouKnowWayAlwaysOptimist

There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.

Rodney Crowell

ChoicesYouChangesMelodySounds

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.

Mary Engelbreit

MotherMemoriesTimeExperienceMe

In high school, I would secretly play Joni Mitchell songs all the time. That's when I started singing and playing at the same time, and I got really into doing that.

Julia Holter

TimeSchoolSingingHigh SchoolPlay

If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

Jose Mujica

LifeWorkTimeYourselfYouNeed

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Joseph Campbell

LiveSadJoyWorldChooseCure

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

Dino De Laurentiis

LoveGreatStoryYouDramaSay

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