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“Music? All kinda music. I don't just listen to one thing; I listen to everything.”

“One thing I've learned best from my mom is to be yourself and not everyone will get you and that's okay. I try to bring that into everything that I do and just understand that I will not be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.”

Trying One Thing Fine Mom Okay My Mom Cups Tea I've Learned Being Yourself Cups Of Tea Things I've Learned

Author:Tyler Oakley

“Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.”

Firsts Important One Thing Important Things Lists Start The Day One Thing At A Time

Author:Brian Tracy

“One thing with Montreal is it's so cold and everyone's so poor and beer's so cheap: if you go to a show you have to brave the weather to get there. So you show up and everyone's soaking wet - there's a sense of 'I trekked through three feet of snow to get here!' I think there's a kind of camaraderie that arises out of that, that's important to me as well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Kind Important Shows Three Poor One Thing Feet Cold Brave Arise Snow Weather Beer Wet Camaraderie Montreal Soaking

Author:Grimes

“Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it`s one thing to do that - it`s a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.”

Trying Moments Turns President Deals One Thing Congress Things To Do Giants Iran Israeli

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“I'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet.”

One Thing Internet Behavior

Author:Dani Shapiro

“"Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the spirit of the beloved moving through things, not lingering long in any one thing or place, no matter how we might wish it.”

Long Matter Might Moving Spirit Wish One Thing Return Beloved Metamorphosis Lingering

Author:Gregory Orr

“I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative. so, I think I'll just write sequences for the foreseeable (the Beloved sequence doesn't have a 'plot' so I can just keep adding poems to it, it's like a giant bag I can just put beloved lyrics into - I think there are about 300 of them i've published by now).”

Thinking Want Writing I Can One Thing Committed Narrative Beloved Giants Bags Plot Intensity Scope Sequence Arcs

Author:Gregory Orr

“Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.”

Stories Fiction One Thing Models Karma Narrative Causality

Author:Jess Row

“People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate.”

People Writing Country Stories Young Language Nations Religious One Thing Special Speech Conservative Israel Translate Old People Open Minded Register

Author:Etgar Keret

“One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir are particularly good at bringing literary strategies and form to experience (at least the good ones are).”

Humans Form One Thing Strategy Memoir Live By

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.”

People Writing Sometimes Stories One Thing Just One

Author:Damian Barr

“I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.”

Ifs Writing Two Matter Hours Morning Four One Thing Fool Bed No Matter What

Author:Kiese Laymon

“I know that a lot of songwriters write about a break up. It's a really popular topic. I think heartbreak is the number one thing people write about. I could say that's narcissistic somehow because they want everybody to admire how pained they are. But I actually do think there's something beautiful and uplifting about knowing that you're not the only one who is experiencing or has experienced that kind of devastating loss. Everyone's experienced that.”

People Thinking Knows Want Writing Kind Beautiful Loss Numbers Break Knowing One Thing Admire Uplifting Songwriters Topics Narcissistic Something Beautiful Really Popular Devastating Loss

Author:Mirah

“I think it's one thing if you are turning out dozens or even a hundred stories a year, you've got to have a great supporting cast behind you. Superman had a family that developed, and it's only natural that Batman has a family of sorts that developed. I think it's a great way to keep the comics interesting and varied, to appeal to different segments of an audience, to bring new perspectives to it.”

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Author:Michael Uslan

“It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.”

Want Years Has Beens Hard Lasts Artist Difficult My Own One Thing Harder Great Work Things I Love Groove

Author:Gail Ann Dorsey

“Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy.”

Thinking Running Interest One Thing Stupid Policy Scientist Campaigns Presidential Disposition Rockets Expertise Not Stupid Presidential Campaign

Author:John Dean

“That's the one thing you wake up with every day: How long have I got left? And that's the saddest thing in the world, because you have this absolute realization that everything you love you're going to have to let go of and give up. I look at my daughter and I think, There's going to be a point where I'm not going to be around for her. Even the thought of that breaks my heart.”

Thinking World Giving Looks Heart Long Left Break One Thing Love You My Heart Letting Go Giving Up Daughter Wake Up Absolutes Realization My Daughter Saddest Breaking My Heart

Author:Moby

“I'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all into an obsessive state where I'm focused on this thing, and it's the one thing that I feel like I may have a little bit of control over in my life.”

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Author:Eric Drooker

“One thing I've discovered is that if you remain in contact with people, if you build longitudinal relationships, if you invest in sources who seem at first like they're uncomfortable or unwilling to talk, if you keep in touch with them, a year later that might yield something much more powerful.”

People Ifs Years Firsts Seems Might Powerful One Thing Source Contact Uncomfortable Yield Unwilling

Author:Sarah Stillman

“One thing I've discovered is that I never think of something that didn't work out as just "something that didn't work out." I think so often with investigative work, things that initially look like failures wind up leading to your biggest stories.”

Thinking Looks Stories One Thing Wind Work Out

Author:Sarah Stillman

“Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.”

Trying Wells May Today Choices Animal Forever One Thing Normal Eating Aspect Vices Acceptable Surgery Vice Versa Eating Animals

Author:Jasper Fforde

“One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.”

Seems One Thing Murder Preparation Kitten

Author:Gene Weingarten

“One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life.”

Country Matter Poverty Rich Violence One Thing Ignorance Intellectual Incredibles Theme Honey Civics Atrocities Unspoken Grappling Intellectual Life Cosmopolitanism

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience.”

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Author:Matthew Zapruder

“My characters' addictions are what makes them a bit stylized or "grotesque" - not just in appearance but through what drives them. Addiction is what threatens stability and normalcy and yet it seems very much a part of being human - at least we are all a bit obsessive and compulsive. Aren't all humans driven by mad desires for one thing or another?”

Humans Character Seems Desire Bits One Thing Mad Addiction Appearance Driven Stability Being Human Obsessive Grotesque Normalcy

Author:Porochista Khakpour

“One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives.”

People Culture Social One Thing Media Ambition Claims Social Media Enthusiasm Conferences Imperatives Utopian Acquiescence Chipotle

Author:Astra Taylor

“One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are professors who are employed full time. Others are marketers or business consultants.”

People One Thing Professors Employed Horns Marketers Consultants

Author:Astra Taylor

“One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.”

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Author:Astra Taylor

“One thing I have a tendency to do is not write choruses, or write choruses that have different words. The first chorus will have different words than the second chorus.”

Writing Firsts Different One Thing Tendencies Chorus

Author:Craig Finn

“I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.”

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Author:Gary Cole

“The best piece of advice I ever received about being a writer came from my brother Lee. I was just starting out and he told me that if I wanted to have a long career, I had to be versatile, that I shouldn't just think of myself in one way, because there would come a time when maybe that one thing wasn't working out for me - and I'd still want to earn a living as a writer.”

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Author:Tod Goldberg

“You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at Hemingway and so many others. You devote your life to one thing, that is what you are. It's artificial but it's all you have. If you lose it, then you're nothing and there's no point in going on.”

Ifs Looks Joy Literature Loses One Thing Danger Artificial No Point

Author:T.C. Boyle

“I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book to make it make sense to that language. But one thing that was really important to me was not to italicize any of the words in the languages that were in the stories, because I feel like those foreign words felt just as important and integral to the story as everything else, so I wanted it all to just exist as its own thing.”

Ifs Feels Writing Important Book Stories Wanted Language Felt Audience Rights One Thing Make Sense

Author:Molly Antopol

“I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.”

People Thinking Forget One Thing Technological

Author:Annie E. Clark

“Usually, whatever's in front of me is what I'm focused on and it's 100% on that and then I kind of move from one thing to the next. Like, if I go to a restaurant and I order food, I always just eat one thing at a time.”

Ifs Kind Moving Order Next One Thing Fronts Focused Restaurants One Thing At A Time

Author:Adam Young

“One thing that has happened is a revolution in digital consumer recording, and overall, that's a great thing for art, but parallel to that there's been a revolution in boutique audio companies making excellent gear.”

Art Company Happened One Thing Revolution Great Things Consumers Excellent Digital Parallels Gears Audio

Author:John Vanderslice

“I want to draw subjects that seem very boring and everyday... Stuff that would be normal except for one thing. Or two things. Or stuff that's undeniably weird.”

Want Two Seems Would Be Stuff One Thing Subjects Normal Draws Everyday Boring Two Things

Author:Chelsea Martin

“Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.”

Thinking Persons Sometimes One Thing

Author:Gerald Stern

“We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move.”

Thinking I Can Ideas Shows Would Be Moving One Thing Benefits Smart No Idea Hindsight Really Smart Daredevil

Author:Charlie Cox

“Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.”

One Thing Occasions Upset Meanness Rare Occasion

Author:Maya Soetoro-Ng

“When somebody asks me "What are your comic books about?" or "What are your songs about?" there is no answer and I feel like an idiot not having an answer, like I don't know what I am making. I really do know what I'm making, but it's not one thing, it's everything I like, and I see no reason to leave out any of that.”

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Author:Jeffrey Lewis

“One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.”

People Stills Stars Challenges Forget One Thing Built Casts Documentaries

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“One thing I really want to explore is writing.”

Want Writing One Thing

Author:Lisa Kudrow

“The internet is such a strange place. You can put up one thing on there like, Katy Perry was a taekwondo master of the black belt! When really all I did was one kickboxing class. That's how I think my short time in doing my gospel record was like.”

Thinking Black Class Records One Thing Strange Masters Internet Belts Short Time Strange Places Black Belt Kickboxing Taekwondo

Author:Katy Perry

“It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.”

Knows World Writing Play Moving One Thing Elements Fascinating

Author:Gail Zappa

“I want my music to be something that people use in order to access parts of themselves. So in that sense, every piece I write is about all emotions at once, about the lines in between. It's never only about one thing or another. It's emotionally getting at those things that we can't really describe - things for which we don't have labels. So yes, it's about something, and it has a use. It's neither about nothing nor about something concrete - it's about what you bring to it as a listener.”

People Want Writing Use Order Lines Emotion Pieces One Thing Access Labels Concrete Listeners

Author:Missy Mazzoli

“What I`m starting to think of as the mythical beast of the Republican establishment, which is the sort of inchoate idea that we keep talking about what they`re going to do and it never seems to have much impact or be manifest in very visible ways, obviously, it is one thing for Donald Trump to have taken a shot like he did early in his campaign at John McCain, calling him not a war hero.”

“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.”

“The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for conveying the experience of us each being alone, trapped in our skulls with only these bodies and this imperfect instrument of language to convey our state and to find meaning and connection.”

Ideas States Body Form Language Can Do Novel One Thing Connections Instruments Imperfect Trapped Find Me Skulls Conveying

Author:Michael Helm

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