A Quotes
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“All my songs instinctively erupted from my guitar and lyrical visions followed the spirit of the music, bot image wise and rhythmical cadence wise. It remains one of life's greatest joys to this day.”
“All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.”
“All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.”
“All my spells smell like burnt hair lately.”
“All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'”
“All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.”
“All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.”
“All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.”
“All my stuff is men's fashion. It's always oversized shirts, boyfriend blazers and trousers.”
“All my stuff is pretty seamless - like now, while I'm touring [Yesterday I Sang The Blues], today I'm going to go in the studio, I'm writing my next one. For me it's continual.”
“All my successes have been built on my failures.”
“All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.”
Source: The Classic Horror Stories
“All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.”
Source: Redemption in Indigo: a novel
“All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.”
“All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."”
“All my thoughts about morals and ethics boil down to one single thing: not if it concerns your family. You can have a thousand principles, but not if it concerns your family. That's what you protect first and foremost, above morals, even above the law. Family first.”
Source: The Winners
“All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever.”
“All my trapped tears are in there like poison, but I can't let them out.”
Source: Someday Dancer
“All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.”
“All my TV shows are done live in front of audiences, and all the material I take on the road and travel with them test them for hundreds and hundreds of shows before I shoot them for TV.”
“All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.”
“All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.
Yet I embrace you openly.
Ripe with expectancy.”
Source: Now Sheba Sings the Song
“All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?”
“all my wealth is in my memories.”
Source: The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956
“All my wealth, power, territories, military might... none of it matters now. She has gone, and with her I shall go.
—Final letter of King Delamore to his general”
Source: The Midnight Star
“All my wife and I do is fight about sex. The other night, we really had it out. Well, I'll put it this way - I had it out.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.”
“All my wife wanted for Valentine's Day was a little card - American Express.”
“All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.”
Source: The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air
“All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.”
“All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.”
“All my work at Armani is based primarily on my personal vision of style, and while I differentiate between the look and mood of my various labels, I am never overly concerned with being 'on trend.'”
“All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.”
“All my work comes out of my life.”
“All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.”
“All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message and feel a part of the art.”
“All my work is much more peaceful than I am.”
“All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.”
Source: Lee Krasner
“All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.”
“All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.”
Source: The Christian Science Journal
“All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.”
“All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.”
“All my works are games, serious game.”
“All my worries had been for nothing. That’s usually how it is with worrying. More often than not, we get ourselves all in a sweat over something that might happen, then everything turns out just fine.”
Source: The Traveling Vampire Show
“All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.”
“All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.”
Source: Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
“All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.”
“All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.”
“All my years of being upset and disappointed by my mother, and all the choices she had made, came down to one truth: She did the best she could with what she had. That truth has set me free.”
Source: This Life I Live: One Man's Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever