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“I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.”

“I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.”

Ifs Way Eye Nice Guitar Horrible Awful Freak Sheets Control Freak Folding

Author:Juana Molina

“Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.”

Ifs Ideas Asks Steps Nice Rings Ask Me Pot Emphasis Melting Separateness Melting Pot

Author:Bobby Jindal

“I hope somewhere along the way, I've inspired someone to do something. ... And I hope they say that I was nice and polite.”

Way Nice Inspired Polite

Author:Daria Werbowy

“I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show work in Switzerland or somewhere else, everywhere else seems to be the provinces in a certain way. You wonder what your paintings are doing on the walls and you wonder who's looking at them.”

Thinking Way Shows Seems Artist Certain Wonder Nice New York Painting Wall Somewhere Else Nice Things Provinces Switzerland

Author:Julian Schnabel

“It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting.”

Names Interesting Nice Print

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking art out of galleries. Now street art is in the gallery, and it's all made up into a nice, packaged concept.”

Thinking Art Made Nice Streets Comfortable Art Is Concepts Genre Gallery Street Art

Author:M.I.A.

“For me, whatever the outcome, it's nice to sit back to something and say, "Man, I'm really proud of that. I'm real proud of the experience that I had, I'm proud to be a part of something so iconic whether anyone watches it or not. They can't take away the experience that I had.”

Men Real Watches Nice Proud Outcomes Iconic

Author:Mike Vogel

“For the most part, if you have an isolated place, it's sort of nice to have a communal vibe.”

Ifs Nice Isolated Isolated Places

Author:Grace Phipps

“If someone's carrying a gun or a knife it's not a nice thing. They aren't going to feel that comfortable with it. It's a scary position to put yourself in. You don't choose to do that unless you feel there's absolutely no other option and you're forced to carry a weapon in order to protect yourself.”

Ifs Feels Order Nice Position Protect Comfortable Weapons Gun Scary Knives Nice Things Protect Yourself

Author:Scarlett Alice Johnson

“If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with books and the conversation you're having with actual human beings happen to dovetail.”

Ifs Humans Book Happens Reading Human Beings Cases Nice Conversation Coincidence Reading Life

Author:Kevin Brockmeier

“It's nice to think people might be talking about it after they've seen it. With some comedies it's a bit 'wham bam thank you ma'am', and then you just go for a pizza.”

People Thinking Might Bits Talking Comedy Nice Pizza

Author:Alice Lowe

“It felt like an indulgence. Going back was painful, but, at the same time, it was nice to live with them again for a few pages. I got to live with my brother again for the entire book. Of course as I'm writing the book, I'm getting closer and closer to the end and I know what that means. I knew exactly where I was heading. It was really difficult, but it was nice to make them come alive for those scenes. It was good.”

Knows Writing Mean Book Ends Courses Felt Difficult Nice Alive Brother Scene Pages Painful My Brother Indulgence Headings

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history of how America was created. With this film, it's nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a way that still exists.”

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Author:Adam Beach

“Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors. We have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them. This movie shows that perspective from Scott's character, and I love it. It shows the American Indians as the ones who respect and help out when people are needed. It's a nice little twist.”

“It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.”

Nice Doom Liberating

Author:Sheila Heti

“There's such an energy created when the world is turned upside down, and when things are good again it's nice to take note. Then it goes away. Change. Change means friction. Friction happens where things aren't quite right, when everything is separating, when nothing is the same. Later you piece it back together.”

World Mean Happens Together Energy Pieces Nice Down And Notes Upside Down Back Together Separating Friction

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.”

Years Song Nice Twenties Excited Music Business Old Song

Author:Five for Fighting

“I think most of us, as writers, have had experiences where you get edited and it doesn't feel like your voice at all. And so it's been nice to go through the experience of having a lot wind up on the cutting-room floor, and yet still feel that your voice is being - not purified, but made more yourself. I think that's a very rare thing.”

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Author:Sarah Stillman

“The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.”

People Ifs Way Want Nice Difficulty Behave Being Nice Conform Pleasing Others

Author:Rachel Holmes

“I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.”

People World Giving I Can Watches Audience Laughing Nice Cry Theater Moved Around The World

Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“Whatever people are doing, they're probably going to be doing it five years from now. You have your banker, your general store runner, the principal of the school, and things of that sort. It's nice to see that, and to get old with other people.”

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Author:Valerie June

“Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?”

Mean Stories Film Song Watches Nice Tvs Roots Murder Good Story Ballads

Author:Valerie June

“Your kids are never to young or too old to hear nice words about them.”

Kids Young Nice Nice Words

Author:Coco Rocha

“The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.”

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Author:Stephen Malkmus

“Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my narrator Hannah, I'm a crime writer in my own peculiar way. Crime with a capital "C" is the subject that I'm stuck with - even Sway is about "crime" in a certain way. The nice thing about crime is that it enables you to deal with some big questioO”

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Author:Zachary Lazar

“One of the nice things about moving from acting to writing is that your work can be in the public eye without having to be in the public eye yourself. I guess that's not completely true. If you're lucky - and I have been - there are book tours and lectures. I don't have stage fright, and I enjoy meeting people, so that's easy and enjoyable, but it's not a constant, and it's not celebrity.”

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Author:Debra Dean

“That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.”

Nice Magic Studios

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“[As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.”

Would Be Nice Radio Studios Pants Being Nice Leather Leather Pants

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice place to live. And a lot of writers who might not geographically reside in New York still point their ambitions towards New York in some sense.”

Stills Might Culture Nice New York Ambition Brooklyn Places To Live

Author:Chad Harbach

“The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.”

Thinking Feels Long Character Nice Comfortable Long Time Nice Things Thinking Less

Author:Gary Cole

“I was like the roadie, I was carrying gear, checking things in at airports, making sure they had flowers backstage and interfacing with promoters who were sometimes really nice and sometimes a little seedy. It was a great apprenticeship, to be in the music industry.”

Littles Sometimes Nice Flower Industry Airports Gears Music Industry Really Nice Promoters Apprenticeship

Author:Annie E. Clark

“If people want me to be their role-model, it would be nice.”

People Ifs Want Would Be Roles Nice Models Role Models Want Me Being Nice

Author:Cher Lloyd

“I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.”

Two Home Able Nice Doors Week Get Away Coming Home Touring

Author:Adam Young

“It's nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you're alive, you know?”

Knows Feels Nice Alive Like You Crush I Have A Crush Having A Crush Your Crush Crushing On Someone

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“Chains and stuff are nice, don't get me wrong I love them and I wear chains, but I can do without it.”

I Can Stuff Can Do Nice Chains

Author:Big Sean

“It's nice not to have to worry about applying for things. It's really a different existence.”

Different Existence Worry Nice

Author:John Brandon

“For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.”

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Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol

“I love New Zealand. Every time I'm in New Zealand someone makes a joke about it being mostly sheep, which I think is unfair, because it's mostly nice people. It's mostly nice people and really wonderful scenery.”

People Thinking Nice Wonderful Jokes Sheep Unfair Scenery New Zealand Nice People

Author:Patrick Stump

“If you go out with someone and decide you don't want to see them again, do them the courtesy of saying, "Hey, I had a nice time, but I don't think things are going to work out between us." Only you can help fight ghosting.”

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Author:Mallory Ortberg

“A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself over time. That you can always find something interesting in the more you listen to it - it keeps revealing something to you.”

Song Interesting Nice Chords Revealing Something Interesting Good Lyric Revealing Something

Author:Bryce Dessner

“I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented, blurry, personas an actually name. It makes me get closer to them or something like that. But they're not all real, they're weird amalgamations of reality.”

Thinking Giving Littles Real Sometimes Character Reality Names Bits Nice Little Bit Persona Blurry Amalgamation

Author:Matt Berninger

“I don't really like over-explaining the songs. Everyone constantly asks what the songs are about, and I think the thing is that the songs definitely all have stories in them; it's just nice to let people decide what they are. I think it's important that people hear it themselves rather than having me annotate it.”

People Thinking Important Stories Song Asks Nice Explaining

Author:Tom Odell

“It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes but the essence of it is there, so it makes you laugh, because even when Frank [Zappa]'s music is sad, it makes me laugh.”

Enough Laughing Nice Music Is Essence Notes Sincerity Frank Make Me Laugh Make You Laugh Zappa

Author:Gail Zappa

“You can never go wrong with a nice red lip. I'm not afraid to wear it during the day or basically any time because I wear a lot of black and it's a great backdrop for it.”

Black Nice Red Lips Not Afraid Red Lips Backdrop

Author:Crystal Renn

“I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.”

People Years Shows Found Nice Streets Fronts Television Surprise British London Britain Publishing Television Shows Denmark British Television

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.”

“I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the...love, I guess. That means a lot to me.”

People Giving Mean Book Community Nice Poet Spread Generous Interviews Nice People

Author:Victoria Chang

“I would never say no to that [marriage] . It hasn't been my path up to this point. I think it would be nice to look forward to that. Meeting somebody of that caliber of "Yes, I want to spend my life with you." Of course, why not. I love the fact that that is legal in every state.”

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Author:Dave Koz

“I'd like to be the Princess. But I want a nice black crown, not a pink crown because I hate pink. I wanna be the naughty Princess from Roc Nation.”

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Author:Rita Ora

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