I’m always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction – I’m genuinely interested in how people see things. John Oliver Read Quote
Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That is no longer the case. Jerome Powell Read Quote
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you’ll do yourself a service. Stephen Sondheim Read Quote
My mom actually had a band called Six Pack – even though there were seven of them – who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin. R. Kelly Read Quote
As a young boy, I read ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience. Ridley Pearson Read Quote
Donald Trump – you can say a lot of negative things about him, and I do, and I think he’s completely unprepared for the office, and he lacks the fabric to lead this nation, but if there’s one thing that he understands, it’s branding and how to navigate the media. Michael Avenatti Read Quote
For every single person who’s struggled with depression, there’s this weird part of your brain that tells you you’re the only person who’s ever felt like that, even if you know for a fact it’s not true. Phoebe Bridgers Read Quote
For all the concern about bodies and weight, ‘Baywatch’ has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food. Nicole Eggert Read Quote
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. Eugenio Montale Read Quote