“I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.” WritingSometimesFunSocialStuffEnjoyVoiceMy OwnRecordsStandingLonelyDemosStanding AloneSo Lonely Author:Sondre Lerche
“To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be.” ThinkingShouldArtDesireEnjoyVoiceForeverDrinkEarsRadioNewspapersAwakeDemonStayingLos AngelesSuggestionsWhisperingBillboardsHypnotic Book:Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses Source: Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses
“In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now?” IfsAgeLife IsPurposeLiteratureEnjoyVoiceReaderDelightStandardization Author:Dana Gioia
“To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.'” IfsNeedsMightNamesEnjoyVoicePleasureLordHumourArmsNeededGuiltDrinkingPartnersPursuitCinemaCompanionRoofPlungeCrispsDrunkardsWantonAuditoriums Author:Quentin Crisp
“He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.” SometimesHandsFunnyEnjoySoundVoiceWonderBeatsHumorousImportanceSatisfactionObviousSentencesMellow Book:Bleak House Source: Bleak House
“I enjoy playing characters where I get to sort of change my look, my voice. It's not about what she wears, it's about what she's got inside.” LooksCharacterEnjoyVoiceChange Author:Linda Cardellini