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“Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.”

“I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.”

Firsts Said Two Hours Half Stage Havens Goes On Late Supposed To Be Concerts Fifth Festivals Half Hours Woodstock

Author:Richie Havens

“I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.”

Men Writing Believe I Can War Self Use Spirit Fighting Jesus Justice Dying Goes On Weapons Highest Crosses Following Defense Motive Rising Aggression Self Defense Following Jesus

Book:On Pilgrimage

Source: On Pilgrimage

“New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others”

Thinking World Trying Two Certain Turns Middle New York Goes On One Day Population Stranger Critical Staring Experts Leap Savages Insects Noon Bumps Density Swarms Grasshoppers

Author:John D. MacDonald

“The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.”

People Needs Animal Arms Goes On Standing Cameras

Author:David Attenborough

“As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.”

Helping Shows Night Lord Growing Up Growing Talent Goes On Let Me Series Sunday Fifteen Let Me Go Sunday Night Talent Show

Author:Otis Redding

“You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.”

Knows Years Dream Rooms Wonderful Goes On Clothes Picks Hollywood Dressings Dressing Rooms Wonderful Places

Author:Larry Hagman

“When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.”

Littles Kids Today Used Seeing Magic Goes On Basketball Bird Nba Little Kid Mike Playgrounds I Am Thankful Like Mike

Author:Allen Iverson

“The stock market's handling of new technology is kind of a joke. We have seen CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg, and the like turn into home-shopping networks for stocks. Fund managers and analysts go on TV and sell what's shiny and easy to sell.”

Kind Home Turns Easy Technology Tvs Goes On Jokes Sells Managers Fund Shopping New Technology Analysts

Author:Mark Cuban

“People wouldn't go on Facebook unless they wanted to share with groups of people. But there is this perception that you have been on a course to push people's information where it's visible across the Internet unless they do a bunch of stuff.”

People Has Beens Wanted Courses Stuff Groups Share Information Goes On Internet Perception Bunch Visible

Author:Walt Mossberg

“I'm not against TV; I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.”

Ifs Shows Might Morning Tvs Goes On Invited Talk Shows

Author:John Updike

“Hotel bars are pretty good. No one bothers me there. Restaurants are safe. People are quite respectful when you're eating. But what I never do now is go to a busy bar on the weekend, or after 8 o'clock at night. That's the danger zone. Also being trapped. Never go on the Metro, or a bus.”

People Night Danger Goes On Safe Eating Busy Bars Clock Bother Restaurants Zone Hotel Bus Weekend Trapped Respectful Metro

Author:Ricky Gervais

“CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.”

Real Audience Rocks Goes On Elements Concerts Performers Back And Forth Rock Concerts

Author:Chris Stein

“I live in a bubble. I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because, well I guess I'm afraid to.”

People Knows Wells Goes On Internet Bubbles Blogs

Author:Ron Perlman

“I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people”

People Ifs Years Littles Different Done Play Shows Remember Used Night Parent Class Groups Rocks Goes On Lows Mad Singers Educated Knees If I Could Saturday Saturday Night Disapproving

Author:Mick Jagger

“What I was really overwhelmed with by Africa was its tremendous natural beauty; I got to go to some pretty amazing places. Every other weekend we got a day or two off and go on a safari or the natural wonders of Africa and if anyone gets the opportunity to go there, it's something you have to do in your lifetime.”

Ifs Two Opportunity Natural Wonder Goes On Lifetime Weekend Overwhelmed Safari Amazing Places Natural Wonders

Author:Edward Zwick

“I have a very vibrant imposter syndrome that goes on throughout most of my life, but nothing more than when someone has to put a hat on me or some kind of sash and go, 'We're giving you this certificate.'”

Giving Kind Goes On Hats Syndromes Certificates Imposter

Author:Robin Ince

“Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.”

Goes On Traditional Tourists Safari

Author:Paul Theroux

“You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].”

People Thinking Goes On Relevant Life Goes On

Author:Alice Walker

“You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Looks Matter Hard Able Acting Masters Goes On Stealing Crafts Look Up Circus Wayne Mimicking

Author:Morgan Freeman

“For me, challenging myself with this type of endeavor [ultramarathons] brings the best out in me because even at the darkest, deepest moments when I feel like I can't go on, when I feel like there's no chance I could break the record or much less finish the trail, somehow I find that strength inside of me.”

Feels I Can Moments Challenges Chance Break Records Type Goes On Endeavor Trails Challenging Myself

Author:Scott Jurek

“I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.”

Feels Looks Body Life Is Easy Stuff Bits Forever One Thing Goes On Proud Lucky Messages Glory Woods Fortunate Damn Touching Damn Good Life Is Not Easy

Author:Paul McCartney

“A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.”

People Democracy Goes On Depends Delicate Brighter

Author:Norman Mailer

“None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.”

Stories Levels Goes On Degrees Empathy Details Criminals Clients Lighters

Author:Hilary Liftin

“I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read a memoir that isn't by a celebrity, we feel like we're about to go on a journey and we don't know where the journey will lead. But when we read a memoir by a celebrity we feel like we already know the journey and we just want to travel it.”

Thinking Knows Want Feels Book Whole Journey Goes On Memoir Genre Trash Very Popular Want To Travel Popular Book

Author:Hilary Liftin

“I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.”

Way Want Moments Felt Alive Risk Adventure Goes On Waste Patches Pirate One Life To Live Precious Moments

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“As I go on in standup, I keep being described as cleaner and cleaner as I do each hour, they're like, 'It's unbelievable how clean,' 'He's the cleanest person in the world.' And then I'll do shows and people will be like, 'You're supposed to be so clean, but you're talking about cancer.'”

People World Persons Shows Hours Talking Like You Goes On Clean Cancer Supposed To Be Unbelievable Cleaners

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.”

Men Years Stills Left Religious Teaching Childhood Goes On Imaging

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.”

Long Names Gone Goes On Legacy Vans Van Halen

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.”

Ifs Theory Goes On Universal Instruments Piano

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“You know, we can't keep talking about our dependence on foreign oil, and the need to deal with global warming, and the challenge that it poses to our climate and to God's creation, and just let business as usual go on. And that means something has to be taken away from some people.”

People Knows Needs Mean Challenges Deals Talking Taken Creation Goes On Climate Oil Global Warming Usual Dependence God's Creation Keep Talking Foreign Oil

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Success never goes on sale. Be willing to pay the market price.”

Pay Willing Goes On

Author:Randy Gage

“When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!”

Feels Week Painting Goes On Mood Binge

Author:Edward Hopper

“And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.”

Long Pain Goes On Relief Keep Going

Author:Lawrence Block

“A batsman goes out and is then in until he gets out. This goes on until the last batsman is out, apart from one who is still in and therefore not out.”

Stills Lasts Goes On

Author:Pippa Middleton

“I don't really like to go out that much. But when I do, I go to the movies, just hang out with friends. I go on Skype and iChat and just chill.”

Goes On Hanging Out Chill Skype

Author:Jacob Latimore

“I always find it difficult to dress in between seasons, but I quite like putting T-shirts on with a vest over the top and another layer so you can peel them back as the day goes on.”

Difficult Goes On Seasons Dresses Shirts Layers T Shirt Over The Top Vests

Author:Poppy Delevingne

“I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.”

Feels Enough Stage Goes On Smart Teeth Brushes

Author:Chris Martin

“I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.”

Men Want Littles Helping Religious Vision Sun Goes On Praying Medicine Traditional Appeals Indian Sweat Quests Ceremony Lodges

Book:On the Rez

Source: On the Rez

“In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.”

Way Values Enemy Pieces Creation Painting Goes On Garden Passing Passings Useless Sculpture Gardener Parting Time Passing Slippery Time Passes Time Goes On Countdown

Book:My Garden (Book)

Source: My Garden (Book)

“I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.”

Should Goes On Good Friend Jonah

Author:Bob Dylan

“Go on, now, go. Walk out the door. Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with 'goodbye?' Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? I will survive.”

Thinking Dies Turns Causes Hurt Walks Doors Goes On Down And Lays Welcome Goodbye Hurt Me

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.”

I Can Home Goes On Jokes Laundry

Author:Hugh Masekela

“The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on”

Source: Hilarity Ensues

“My daughter is a real migraine sufferer; the minute she has a handful of Haribo sweets, she gets a headache. Theres a connection between what the liver cant break down with what goes on to trigger a headache. You just have to be aware.”

Real Break Minutes Sweet Goes On Daughter Connections My Daughter Breaking Down Cant Handful Triggers Headache Liver Sufferers Migraine

Author:Sheherazade Goldsmith

“I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.”

Stills Wanted Goes On Red Baseball Who I Am Shirts Jeans T Shirt Carpet Caps Red Carpet Baseball Caps

Author:Missy Peregrym

“I dont want to write a book; I dont want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines.”

Want Writing Book Goes On Comfortable Magazines Stink

Author:Patti Hansen

“I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.”

Children Mother Goes On Bird Winter Nine Obliged Nests

Author:Melville Fuller

“Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even though what is in front of you could be tough, make it successful. Have determination and courage to kick down the brick walls in front of you, and to go on and achieve bigger success than you ever thought possible.”

Opportunity Successful Achieve Fronts Wall Goes On Offers Tough Determination Bigger Embrace Kicks Bricks Brick Wall Road Less Travelled

Author:Li Cunxin

“Don't go on pretending to be someone you are not”

Goes On Pretending

Author:Sizzla

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