I’ve always considered myself a workaholic… The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that’s where something good comes out. Josh Homme Read Quote
I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it’s because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being ‘arranged.’ Ingmar Bergman Read Quote
Coming from a middle class background, I faced a lot of hardships during my initial years in Mumbai. I did not have much money and had to sing jingles and bhajans to survive. But those years taught me that a singer should be versatile. Javed Ali Read Quote
The best career advice was to sing with an understanding and internalise the music – that was my mother’s advice. Sing with intention, believe what it is you’re saying, and think about it, before you sing it. Gregory Porter Read Quote
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn’t excite me and didn’t even remotely connect to the realities of my life. R. A. Salvatore Read Quote
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless. Katherine Dunn Read Quote
I used to get in trouble a lot in school because I would write very naughty stories and poems in class. Ashnikko Read Quote
To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent – that’s what a comic has. J. B. Smoove Read Quote
Rogers and Hammerstein were such a genius pair. They were able to touch on subject matter so far ahead of its time. Ruthie Ann Miles Read Quote
