But if I worried too much about publishers’ expectations, I’d probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. David Baldacci Read Quote
I don’t know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it’s made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition. Ennio Morricone Read Quote
In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment of e-mails and opportunities and papers around my desk, for an hour, and just sit on our 30-inch terrace in the sun, reading something sustaining, whether ‘The Age of Innocence’ or the latest by Colm Toibin. Pico Iyer Read Quote
Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop. J. D. Hayworth Read Quote
I essentially started out with a Western series for WildStorm/DC but didn’t want to be perceived as a ‘Western artist.’ I did a couple of super-hero things at Marvel but didn’t want to be one of those guys, either. I loved all these genres and wanted to play in a very big toy box. Enter ‘Planetary.’ John Cassaday Read Quote
When my family first moved to Hempstead in the 1960s, they were one of the first black families. It used to be an all-white neighborhood, but there was white flight when the black people with money started moving in. When I was, like, 13 or 14, Hempstead had just become all black, and the poverty became worse and worse. Prodigy Read Quote
We are not into financial services, and we are not interested also because we find we are better in branded marketing enterprises. Adi Godrej Read Quote
