In my opinion, that’s one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at its core, is a simple concept. Chris Young Read Quote
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. Robert Fritz Read Quote
I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having. Kiefer Sutherland Read Quote
In major studio scripts, the girls are very similar. They’re all witty and hot. I’m more of an oddball. Riley Keough Read Quote
Americans’ distrust of the conspicuously intellectual – a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character – has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners’ patience for music that is especially complex or austere. Steven Stucky Read Quote
Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we’ve ‘discovered’ something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I’m not trying to prove anything – I just want to have kids. Jane Pauley Read Quote
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who’s your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully. B. J. Novak Read Quote
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God. George Berkeley Read Quote
