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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: August 29, 1959

Topics

Music History Training Me Speak

People talk about how many goals I score, how I play, how I move on the field. In Argentina, on the other hand, they're always digging for dirt, and they continue to talk about me as the husband of Wanda Nara, that guy who stole the woman and ruined the life of a former teammate, when it was never actually like that.

Life Goals Woman People Me Husband

I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real.

Challenge People Me Doing Strange

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.

Mother I Am Growing Up American Up

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

Good Die You Give Reviews Like

I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical problems, but I wouldn't sit down with him and talk about the distant past. It's somewhat in contrast to other Americans, who feel that they have to confess things, but I'm really not like that.

Joyce Carol Oates

Past Husband Problems Feel Down Him

The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get work done. In fact, offices have become interruption factories.

Work Day People Place Done Want

Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing.

King Me Stillness Lesson Timing

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

Leadership Think You Why Think Big

Geothermal can be a huge source of energy very quickly.

Energy Source Very Quickly Huge

You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we're sometimes playing quieter stuff, it's hard to sound like we're trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.

Change Trying You Sometimes Try

I like being on a plane with no phone service because I get so much work done.

Pramila Jayapal

Work Service Phone Done Being Get

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

Sad Clothes Something About Tomb

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