There were times my mom and I butted heads – over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, ‘You just don’t understand what it’s like to be a mother… I could never handle losing you.’ I was like, ‘OK, but just, like, chill out.’ Brie Larson Read Quote
Getting recognized for my skill is very important to me. ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’ gave me that. Sobhita Dhulipala Read Quote
After my second-to-last record, ‘The Greatest’, I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn’t play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of – it’s not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself – but disappointed in myself that I hadn’t been challenging myself to learn musically. Cat Power Read Quote
If people come to a record store, and they can’t find your album, they buy something else. Boots Riley Read Quote
If I say ‘political comedian,’ then people think you’re talking about you, the Senate and Congress, and what’s going on in Washington D.C. If I say ‘comedian,’ people automatically assume that you’re a comedian who talks about how his wife won’t listen to him and that dummy down at the mechanic who wouldn’t fix his car. W. Kamau Bell Read Quote
I’m basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren’t interested in ideas. The English, I’m afraid, are totally brainless. Colin Wilson Read Quote
As far as I remember, I don’t have any warrants out for my arrest anymore. I can travel without fear. Mark Lanegan Read Quote
You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated – I mean that I was just vilified for – are now looked at as classics. John Milius Read Quote
