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“People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.”

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Nick Tosches

Nick Tosches is an American journalist renowned for his in-depth reporting on music, culture, and crime. His writing style is distinctive, often using vivid and detailed descriptions to portray complex characters and events. more

“The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot coffee every morning. People keep giving me marijuana. I've got pouches in a drawer. I've been meaning to smoke a joint and watch Abbott and Costello Go to Mars. I planned to do this three months ago and I still haven't gotten around to it.”

People Giving Real Morning Drug Hot Coffee Marijuana Every Morning Get Real Opium

Author:Nick Tosches

“I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.”

World Giving Eye Scientist Outcomes Predictable Through The Eyes

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“When I was a little kid, I saw a guy with one of those cancer clarinets, and I flipped out. I totally flipped out. I said to my mom, "Mom, what is that thing?" And she happened to know, too, which was the oddest thing. She said, "That's a Bell Telephone artificial larynx, for men that had their voice boxes removed because of cancer." I was like, "Wow." And I couldn't wait to get one. I didn't get one 'til I was all grown up and everything.”

Men Kids Guy Waiting Mom Cancer My Mom Little Kid Clarinet

Author:Billy West

“I'm not like a high intellectual. That's the thing.”

Intellectual

Author:Billy West

“I don't know if enjoy is the right word for alcohol. I like to drink, but I don't like enforced social drinking. When I don't wanna drink, I don't wanna drink. I haven't had a desire to drink for four months. When I think of the taste of it, no desire. The trouble is the wines I love I can barely afford, which is a great method to cut down on your drinking: Drink only what you can't afford.”

Thinking Desire Enjoy Cutting Trouble Drink Wine Drinking Alcohol

Author:Nick Tosches

“We're finite creatures, doomed to never get a fraction of what wisdom it would take to deal with infinity. My book has a lot to do with the unbelievable power and beauty of that almost unattainable freedom. Since none of us really gets to know it, we don't know what extremely powerful dangers might lurk in it.”

Book Powerful Danger Unbelievable

Author:Nick Tosches

“I was basically a sound engineer, I produced radio shows and stuff and had to splice tape in the old days. And you knew a sloppy edit when you heard it, because I had enough of them. But that stuff takes the magic out of it, if you need to know everything. Then you become omnivorous. Everything is tender, and as soon as you burn it up, you're on to the next.”

Enough Magic

Author:Billy West

“If everyone else is doing something, I have little or no interest in it. If you're known as this guy who can do any kind of sound or voice or whatever, somebody will go, "Do you do Christopher Walken?" "No." "Well, why not?" "Because everybody else in the world does it." My carpenter does Christopher Walken.”

World Kind Guy Interest Carpenter

Author:Billy West

“You're never gonna outwrite the movement of the white clouds and the blue sky. You're never going to. There are times when I try to write beautifully, but I don't know if I'm trying to exorcise my own demons. If I am, there are other ones lurking beneath, because they keep coming out. Maybe little by little I'm fumigating.”

Writing Trying Demon Blue Sky Lurking

Author:Nick Tosches

“Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like. Everybody. Somebody would just stick their head in the door and say, "He sounds too Jewish." Or, "He's too tough, he's off-putting. You gotta seduce kids, not scare them out the door."”

Kids Perception Tough Scare Seducing

Author:Billy West

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