“With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.” PainGraceChildhoodSpecialPeriodsUniqueAdultsCoreIgnorantBlissLamentIgnorant Bliss Author:Barry Privett
“Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.” StatesIndividualSocialEasyPayGraceSecurityNeededPeriodsTaxesImmigrationIncomeCardsReformWelfarePermitSocial SecurityIncome TaxMedicareImmigration Reform Author:Gary Johnson
“My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything, people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.” PeopleFeelsFirstsGrowsGracePeriodsLuckyNetherlands Author:Angel Olsen
“'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams.” RunningArtistSpiritualityGracePlayerCenturyPeriodsJazzLabelsGenreDriversSense Of HumorComposerMaryOddsDistinctiveEnsembleAgainst All Odds Author:Dave Douglas
“When you're the commander in chief, you're the commander in chief on day one. You don't get like a six-month grace period. The world doesn't just stop and say, well, let's wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.” WorldWellsAmericaWaitingPresidentChallengesGraceMonthsPeriodsSixChiefsSix MonthsCommandersCommander In Chief Author:Marco Rubio
“I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.” ThinkingHumansCultureCompanyGraceOur LivesYouthHugeIndustryPeriodsDollarsRateResistanceInstanceCorporateThese DaysThriveRebellionMusic IndustryFuriousSavvyParcelEncroachmentYouth Culture Author:Ani DiFranco
“I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.” WayTryingYearsTwoFormWatchesGraceMonthsPeriodsSceneLosingMy FriendsWindowMachinesSellsEightLabelsFasterParisTwo YearsMechanismPunkPrimitiveSixtyRefinedClumsySeattleRunway Author:William Gibson