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“Sometimes I would bring some of my music to the school and perform on the playground, and they'd think, "There goes Patrick, trying to entertain everyone as usual."”

Thinking Trying Sometimes School Usual Playgrounds

Author:Tinie Tempah

“Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I wouldn't go to sick bay. In that year, if I had gone to sick bay, they would have written me up. I didn't go to sick bay. I'd go somewhere and hide and soak my leg in a bucket of hot water with salt in it--an old remedy. Then I'd get up the next morning and run.”

Ifs Years Sometimes Running Next Water Morning Gone Written Blood Sick Hot Legs Get Up Artificial Salt Remedy Buckets Puddles Hot Water Stumps

Author:Carl Brashear

“Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition.”

Thinking Knows Book Sometimes Attention Nice Recognition Pay Attention Frustrated Good Book

Author:Paul Beatty

“Sometimes I would go home from work and just stare at the wall for a couple of hours. But, I can't complain. Whatever knocks you out working is the kind of work that I want to be doing because it's always those challenges that are the most exciting, and the things I hope to get to keep doing in my work.”

Want Kind I Can Sometimes Home Hours Challenges Wall Couple Exciting Complaining Staring

Author:Lily Rabe

“Sometimes I would go on Sundays and play with Doc Cheatham. I was also playing in a band of teenagers led by Don Sickler called Young Sounds, and The McDonald's Big Band led by Rich De Rosa and Justin Di Cioccio. All those guys were great educators and musicians and taught me a lot! Simultaneous to all this, another one of my musical fathers came into my life, Eddie Locke.”

Sometimes Play Bigs Young Guy Father Sound Rich Taught Goes On Band Musician Musical Teenager Sunday Educator Mcdonalds Justin Rosa Simultaneous

Author:Jon Gordon

“Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.”

Thinking Way Trying Sometimes Character Opportunity Parent Comedy Type Driven Old Fashioned

Author:Jay Roach

“Sometimes I would like to cry. I close my eyes. Why weren't we designed so that we can close our ears as well? (Perhaps because we would never open them.) Is there some way that I could accelerate my evolution and develop earlids?”

Way Wells Sometimes Eye Cry Evolution Ears Accelerate

Author:Kate Atkinson

Source: Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel

“Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to find all the drivers were new. It wasn't like a square dance, where you miraculously end up with your original partner, laughing and feeling giddily relieved to find him after dancing with everyone else in the world. Instead, they swung around and kept on going, some people were at work by now, or halfway to the airport. In fact, driving might be the thing most opposite of dancing.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.”

Trying Stills Sometimes Feelings Lasts Imagine Breaths Invoke

Author:Peggy Lipton

Source: Breathing Out

“Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.”

Mind Sometimes States Eye Emotion Watches Kissing Concepts Breathing Abstract State Of Mind Subjective

Author:Tiffanie DeBartolo

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

“Sometimes I would ride with my daughter in the car to go make transactions. A couple of times me, her and my baby mother would be in the car and you know we would kind of be riding dirty. So like I said, again man, I was very naïve.”

Knows Men Kind Said Sometimes Would Be Mother Car Baby Couple Daughter Dirty My Daughter Riding Transactions My Baby

Author:Nelly

“Sometimes I would see myself as a book with bad binding. You know, like one more reader, one more face-down on the bed and I was going to spill everything, lose control”

One Lose Control

Author:Jerry Pinto

Source: Em and the Big Hoom

“Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.”

Soul Sometimes Hours Storm Rage My Soul Tangible Debris Memento

Author:Orhan Pamuk

Source: The Museum of Innocence

“Sometimes I would take Nietzsche or something. And I wouldn't read it, but more just scan the words. Sometimes I would get whatever the popular thing at the time was. I don't know, something like Bret Easton Ellis. It was just a very random, inefficient education.”

Knows Sometimes

Author:John Brandon

“Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.”

Want Sometimes Waiting Minutes Calm Surface Rising Sinking Calm Down

Author:Axl Rose

“Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I always thought the more personal a song was, the more people would want to hear it.”

People Want Writing Ideas Sometimes Song Universal

Author:Jane Wiedlin

“Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.”

Writing Sometimes Force Ego Inspired Sheer Revision Force Of Will

Author:Jesse Michaels

“Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.”

Thinking Giving Important Sometimes Stories Sports Paper Sells Come Up Interviews Papers

Author:Martina Hingis

“Sometimes I write a song and I'm down with it but I'm like yeah, whatever, and then everybody loves it and then it blows up. I'm like: "Okay! I didn't see that coming."”

Writing Sometimes Song Okay Yeah Blow

Author:Bonnie McKee

“Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.”

Writing Different Sometimes Inspiration My Own Situation Saws Scene My Friends Different Place My Own Life

Author:Taylor Swift

“Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.”

Writing Sometimes Universe Happened Wind Happenings

Author:Chad Kroeger

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”

Writing Sometimes Emotion Creation Discipline Elements Drunk Restraint Sober Spontaneity

Author:Peter De Vries

Source: Reuben, Reuben: A Novel

“Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Song Depends Mood Personal Experiences Good Mood

Author:Orianthi

“Sometimes I write it down, sometimes I freestyle. I get lines coming to me randomly throughout the day and I'll jot it down and build on that. If I get a line that's about love, it starts up a whole love verse... And if a beat speaks to me, it's like I already know what to write.”

Writing Sometimes Speak Verses

Author:CJ Fly

“Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to my heart, and it's fun to write, and when something's fun to write you don't think about what statement you're trying to make or what genre you're trying to hone in on.”

Thinking Writing Trying Heart Sometimes Fun Stuff My Heart Musical Statements Genre Close To My Heart

Author:Rachel Bloom

“Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.”

Writing Sometimes Singing Difficulty Notes

Author:Elvis Costello

“Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.”

Writing Sometimes Sound Natural Talking Keys Singing Difficulty Harmony Notes Odd Melody Perfectly Natural

Author:Elvis Costello

“Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!”

Writing Sometimes Able Week Reader

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Artist Song Grew Grew Up Tradition Pops Melody 80s Format

Author:Robyn

“Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.”

Writing Sometimes Happens Stuff

Author:David Byrne

“Sometimes, I write the articles in capital letters, for the beauty; however, I read out that in small letters. Is it a grammatical problem?”

Letters

Author:Ehsan Sehgal

“Sometimes i write the best about the things that I care about least”

True Weird

Author:Vikram Seth

Source: A Suitable Boy

“Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.”

Writing Wells Sometimes Upset

Author:Alice Mattison

“Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.”

Writing I Can Different Sometimes Use Brain Paint

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader. You have to get it. If you don't get it the first time you may not understand. If you like repetition, analysis, explanation, you probably won't like my books.”

Thinking Writing Mind Book Sometimes First Time Explanation Repetition

Author:James Salter

“Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Flow

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look at it again.”

Writing Looks Sometimes Done

Author:Gideon Glick

“Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person.”

Persons Sometimes Wonder Reflection Shadow Window

Author:Julie Anne Peters

“Sometimes I'd go [in British accent] "Uhh, brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. Wonderful. Cheers!" I do say "cheers" automatically," from living over there. I say "cheers" to everything.”

Sometimes Wonderful British Brilliant Cheer Accents

Author:Rich Fulcher

“Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.”

People Said Sometimes Wanted Records Style Leslie

Author:Desmond Dekker

“Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.”

Sometimes School Doors Double Life

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.”

Way Long Sometimes Lost Talking Silent Critics Stuck Vacant

Author:David Toop

“Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.”

Knows Sometimes Feelings Player Football Goes On Conversation Rate Soccer Restaurants Holiday Know Me Greenland

Author:Fernando Torres

“Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.”

Sometimes Play Guy Dies Actors Movie Bad Guys

Author:Jackie Chan

“Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated”

Ifs Sometimes Stuff Jew Baskets Laundry Drawers

Author:Franz Kafka

“Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.”

“Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.”

Ifs Writing Book Sometimes Character Asks Notes Monologues

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.”

Years Looks Made Sometimes Guy Turns Sound Interesting Years Ago Down And Made It Glimpse Surfing That Guy

Author:Andrew Niccol

“Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.”

“Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking. Then I start to love them. By the time I finish the book, I love them so much that I want to stay with them. I don't want to leave them ever.”

Want Stills Book Ideas Sometimes Character Talking Clear Calling Pages Fifty Sixty

Author:Joan Didion

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