“I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc taking shape between them. I was experimenting with releasing the stories online for Paypal donations, so the existing ones are currently available via the blog for free download, but the ball didn't keep rolling in terms of meeting the targets I was setting.” StoriesTermNumbersWrittenShapesBallsMeetingsAvailableSettingSettingsNarrativeOnlineTargetRollingBlogsArcsDonationDownloadsPaypal Author:Hal Duncan
“It was my second show as a writer, and Justin Timberlake was just coming off boy-band stardom. People were rolling their eyes, but I used to watch the Mickey Mouse Club, and I knew all those kids were talented as hell. Justin was as comfortable on camera in that first episode as any of our cast members.” PeopleFirstsShowsEyeKidsUsedBoysWatchesHellBandMembersComfortableCamerasCastsClubsEpisodesRollingMiceJustinMickeyStardomBoy BandsCast Members Author:Jason Sudeikis
“I'm extremely proud of what I have achieved. I've travelled around the world twice, went from rolling quarters for cigarettes, balling my eyes out, wondering what I was going to do after losing three million dollars, to being very financially comfortable, to buying a Mercedes G Wagon to being able to get whatever I want and living in a beautiful apartment in West Hollywood, furnished exactly how I want it. Life is incredible.” WorldWantEyeAbleBeautifulLife IsThreeWonderMillionsProudComfortableLosingHollywoodDollarsWestIncrediblesAround The WorldBuyingQuartersCigaretteApartmentRollingMillion DollarsWagonsWest Hollywood Author:Shane Bunting
“I walked away from everybody I knew. I locked myself in a loft that I rented, like I told you, where I was rolling quarters for cigarettes. I was having to borrow money off of the rent guy... the real estate agent that was renting me the loft.” RealGuyAgentsQuartersLockedCigaretteRollingEstatesEstate Agents Author:Shane Bunting
“I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.” HealthyLifestyleRollingHealthy LifestyleAnkles Author:Shawn Johnson
“When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.” CharacterWrittenCrazyStonesStudiosBrownRollingAssignmentsRolling Stones Author:Jonathan Lethem
“I told Bernie Taupin that his best lyrics were for Song For Guy just because it doesn't have any words in it. But there you go... I'm a wind up! But a good Elton song for karaoke is I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues... "laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder under the covers..." Everyone can join in!” ChildrenGuySongLaughingWindLoversRollingThunderKaraoke Author:Matt Lucas
“Even somebody like Bill Clinton, who I happen to admire very much, the second he was out of office, I remember, he was interview in Rolling Stone and he said he thought we should have legalized marijuana. And I thought, gosh, if only you were in some sort of position to affect change in the last eight years where you could have done something about that.” IfsShouldYearsSaidDoneHappensLastsRememberPositionOfficeStonesShould HaveBillsClintonEightAdmireInterviewsMarijuanaRollingRolling Stones Author:Bill Maher
“My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.” FirstsRealFatherRocksArgumentStonesHatedRollingRock And RollRolling Stones Author:Patti Smith
“When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.” VoiceRealizingNaturalRocksBandStonesRock N RollRollingCoveringRolling Stones Author:Gotye
“So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.” ArtFormHugeBandConceptsStonesAlbumsRollingRolling StonesHendrix Author:DJ Spooky
“So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same thing with rock, if you look at the Rolling Stones doing a cover of Otis Redding or you know if you look at literature James Joyce is pulling fragments of text from other people.” PeopleIfsKnowsLooksLiteratureRocksStonesRollingPullingFragmentsMonkDukesRolling StonesJoyce Author:DJ Spooky
“The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not dark, it is a beaming light trying to focus you, the rolling thunderous call of courage, the rays of greatness seeking to explode beyond your skin to touch once more the Spirit of Possibility.” FeelsTryingWarLightSpiritDarkFocusPossibilityGreatnessConflictSkinsSeekingUncertaintyHatedInternalsRaysRollingAvoidedRestlessnessUnendingInternal Conflict Author:Brendon Burchard
“One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it.” TwoSidesSituationKnownBuildingSixLegsSpeedFlightWheelsShopsLeapVehicleRollingCan NotBackwardsAxesSuspensionTripods Author:Jamie Hyneman
“One of the big problems in America's economic polarization and shrinkage is that pensions can't be paid. So there are going to be defaults on pensions here, just like Europeans are insisting in rolling back pensions. You can look at Greece and Argentina as the future of America.” LooksProblemBigsAmericaEconomicPaidRollingGreeceDefaultPensionBig ProblemsArgentinaInsistingPolarizationFuture Of AmericaShrinkage Author:Michael Hudson
“I try and shoot as often as I can, I cross shoot. I have at least two cameras rolling at the same time. So I'll have two actors or two sets of actors at a time so everybody's basically on camera. So when they improvise we have everybody's coverage. And you can then go in the editing room and find the energy still stays there.” TryingStillsTwoActorsEnergyRoomsCrossesCamerasRollingEditingCoverage Author:Denis Leary
“The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.” WayLooksBandStonesBarsKneesRollingTouringRolling Stones Author:Jon Bon Jovi
“The only reason an indie gets made is because someone has a burning passion to do it and won't take no for an answer, as opposed to a big film, which is like a train that starts rolling down the tracks and nothing can stop it.” MadeReasonBigsFilmPassionAnswersTrainTrackBurningRollingBurning Passion Author:William H. Macy
“I was working as a staff writer at Rolling Stone. I had a friend who worked at MTV, and she called me and said, "They're looking for VJs for this new channel. Do you want to try out?" I had zero TV experience, but I thought, "Well, what the hay."” WantTryingWellsSaidTvsStonesZeroStaffRollingRolling StonesMtvHay Author:Jancee Dunn
“I wondered how I was going to do it and keep my job at Rolling Stone at the same time. They were very nice, and they let me disappear for two days a week for a couple of hours. That's how long shooting was.” LongTwoJobsHoursNiceWeekCoupleStonesLet MeDisappearShootingRollingVery NiceTwo DaysRolling Stones Author:Jancee Dunn
“We had a wonderful department that scouted out new music. It was beneficial to Rolling Stone, because I would come back and say, "You have to hear this, you have to hear that," and I found a lot of bands to feature, emerging bands. It [ended up being] symbiotic.” FoundWonderfulBandStonesFeaturesDepartmentRollingBeneficialEmergingRolling StonesNew Music Author:Jancee Dunn
“A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone.” ArtistNamesStonesUnusualRollingRolling StonesUnusual Names Author:Jancee Dunn
“Also because few people were watching - aside from a healthy amount of incarcerated people, because M2 was offered in a lot of prisons - I was able to ask really long, kind of muso questions, that they loved. We could really geek out and talk about music for long periods of time, and that tape would just keep rolling and rolling.” PeopleKindLongAbleAsksAmountPeriodsHealthyPrisonTapeRollingGeekLong Periods Of TimeReally Long Author:Jancee Dunn
“Before M2, I really felt self-conscious about some of my choices, and I was slotted into a category. At Rolling Stone, I was the alternative chick, and that was just the way it was. That did break me open a little bit, and that was maybe its legacy. And it's a nice one.” WayLittlesSelfChoicesFeltBitsBreakNiceLittle BitConsciousStonesAlternativesLegacyCategoriesRollingSelf ConsciousChicksRolling Stones Author:Jancee Dunn
“No matter how much I'm on and people are loving me, there's always some like, and it's usually a woman too, in the audience rolling her eyes, "Oh Wayne, you're embarrassing yourself." There's always someone like that.” PeopleMatterEyeAudienceRollingHer EyesEmbarrassingWayneLoving Me Author:Wayne White
“Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.” I CanHelpingAudienceCamerasSeatsRollingTrance Author:Wayne White
“If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.” IfsWorldWayVotingRollingNot Voting Author:Bill Mollison
“The states have the authority to change this voting system for president, right now, in fact, if they wanted, on an emergency basis, they could adopt a ranked-choice system, which simply allows you to go to the poll, and rather than rolling your dice and deciding whether to vote your values or your fears, you get to rank your choices, knowing that if your first choice loses your vote is automatically assigned to your second choice. It's kind of a no-brainer system. It works very well.” IfsFirstsWellsKindStatesFactsWantedValuesChoicesPresidentLosesKnowingRight NowAuthorityVoteBasesVotingRollingEmergenciesPollsDiceNo BrainerSecond Choice Author:Jill Stein
“Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.” IdeasFactsTheoryDebtGood IdeasRollingLoanGreat Idea Author:Jean Chatzky
“My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium. Then I met Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. This is all way, way back in the day. Later I got in the big leagues, like chasing around The Rolling Stones. And I hid in the bus for Paul Revere & The Raiders. And The Zombies.” WayFirstsMadeStillsBigsYoungCitiesBehindsMetsStonesLeagueWheelsBusRollingChasingZombieDrummerDetroitAlleysRolling StonesBack In The DayRascalsRaidersAuditoriumsCrosby Author:Cassandra Peterson
“My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going back. But when we saw those Soviet tanks rolling into Afghanistan, the prospect for return looked very dim. Few of us, I have to say, envisioned that nearly a quarter century of bloodletting would follow.” WellsWould BeLeftSawsCenturyReturnMy FamilyCommunistAfghanistanQuartersSovietRollingInvasionTanksCoupsBloodletting Author:Khaled Hosseini
“"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since.” SongKissingStonesBobRollingDylanRolling Stones Author:Bob Dylan
“That might be the old model: to get a fixed fee. You have to start to think about other models and how they can generate interest - what it can do for a brand in the future - and about the fact that revenue can also be generated in many other ways... Just look at the one and a half million people at the free Rolling Stones concert in Cuba. And Cuba is not Central Park! So just use your imagination as to what kind of revenue can be made.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksKindMadeFactsUseMightInterestCan DoImaginationHalfMillionsModelsStonesBrandsFixedParksConcertsRollingRevenueCubaFeesRolling StonesCentral Park Author:Martin Sorrell
“We have been subject to globalization and financialization and austerity and workers have been thrown under the bus while the one percent is rolling in dough.” Has BeensSubjectsPercentWorkersThrownBusRollingGlobalizationDoughAusterityThrown Under The Bus Author:Jill Stein
“It's Axelle's [ Carolyn] concept and she's the one who got the ball rolling. She told a few of us about it, and I brought in Epic Pictures and got it financed.” ConceptsBallsRollingEpic Author:Mike Mendez
“Knowing that things are going to slow down in the future, no matter what, that allows me to work hard now, make hay while the sun is shining and knowing that - while momentum is rolling - we have to hit it hard.” MatterHardSunKnowingHard WorkNo Matter WhatShiningRollingSlow DownMomentumHay Author:Granger Smith
“Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling, treacherous wake of that sunken ship, the last thing I sought was a "relationship" or, heaven forbid, marriage.” PeopleEndsLastsHeavenDarkCancerDivorceShipsPlentyRollingScornImprisonmentTreacherous Author:Jim Goad
“I'd known the people at Rolling Stone for a while. I'd gone to them with a piece I'd done on Beirut for Vanity Fair that Vanity Fair didn't want to publish, because they said I was making fun of death... This was Tina Brown.But they paid me for it. So I've got this big chunk of a piece, and Rolling Stone liked it, but they thought it was a little dated. But then they called me back and asked me to do a similar piece about the Turks and Caicos Islands, where the whole government had been arrested for dope smuggling. That was fun.” PeopleWantLittlesSaidDoneWholeBigsGovernmentFunKnownGonePiecesFairsStonesPaidVanityIslandsBrownRollingThey SaidPublishArrestedDopeRolling StonesChunksBeirutVanity FairSmuggling Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Then basically what was happening was that it was the middle '80s, and Rolling Stone realized that a lot of their readers had voted for [Ronald] Reagan, and they were going, "Gosh! We need a Republican! Does anybody know a Republican? Wait a minute! I think P.J.'s a Republican!"” ThinkingKnowsNeedsDoeWaitingMiddleMinutesReaderRepublicanHappeningsStonesRolling80sRolling Stones Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time together socially, which is to say "drunk."” DifferentTogetherOfficeStonesDrunkRollingRolling StonesTime Together Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Whereas Rolling Stone, I just never had anything to do with them. I'd stop by the office maybe twice a year.” YearsOfficeStonesRollingRolling Stones Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.” WorldNeedsFeelsYearsFirstsIdeasWarGovernmentRunningCertainVoiceEconomyGoneEconomicCenturyColdOrdinaryAspectStonesWindowBillsClintonConservativeSurfaceLibertarianArguingPlanningSocialismRollingDominantCold War20th CenturyRolling StonesMarket EconomyBlahDissidentsCentralization Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“When [George W.] Bush was elected, I think they thought I would have some sort of special "in" with that administration, to provide some sort of inside poop. Which is not something I'd be interested in doing, and anyway, I didn't. I actually knew more people in his dad's administration. So it was obviously winding down at Rolling Stone, and they were having financial troubles, too. They weren't getting the advertising, and the issues were getting thin. They fired Bob Love, who'd been my editor there for a long time.” PeopleThinkingLongIssuesTroubleSpecialDadLong TimeStonesFinancialAdvertisingAdministrationEditorsBobRollingRolling StonesPoopWinding Down Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they do that. Anyway, it was always sort of ridiculous, me having anything to do with the youth culture, but now that I'm in my 50s, it's extra-double-ridiculous. They were losing interest in me, and I was losing interest in them. When I went to renegotiate my contract at Rolling Stone, I kind of halfheartedly asked if I could do half the work for half the money, and they asked if I could do two-thirds of the work for half the money. I ran that by my agent, since he can do math.” IfsKindStillsTwoFactsRunningCultureInterestCan DoHalfPiecesNiceYouthLosingStonesThirdsMathRidiculousAgentsRanNot SureExtrasIf I CouldContractsRollingRolling StonesYouth CultureLosing Interest Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in the Philippines during the Marcos overthrow, and I was up on what was called Smokey Mountain. I think it's gone now, but it was a garbage dump with a bunch of people living on it. I was talking to Bob on the phone, and I told him, "I'm a humorist. I can't write about this." And Bob told me to let my style be dictated by the subject, to take what I saw and write about it in the tone that it requires.” PeopleThinkingWritingFirstsI CanTalkingGoneSawsWonderfulSubjectsStyleMountainStonesPhonesBunchToneEditorsBobRollingGarbageLiving OnDumpRolling StonesPhilippinesHumoristsMarcos Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I called Scott Rudin, and I told him I wanted to do the play [Fences], so that's how the ball got rolling. I never said, "I'll do the play, and the next year I'll do the film, I just wanted to do the play."” YearsSaidPlayWantedFilmNextBallsRollingFenceNext Year Author:Denzel Washington
“Buddy Hackett [was] talking - this is Hackett, not me - about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families ... the look of absolute horror. He's going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It's just total horror, and the camera's still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, "Anything else, Bud?"” LooksChildrenStillsTalkingHorrorDirectorsAbsolutesCamerasNoiseMaryRollingSay AnythingVirginsBuddyBudVirgin MaryLimerick Author:Bill Murray
“[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-'60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.” FirstsStillsYoungSongStrongTermRocksReadyStonesGratefulZonePeterBobRollingRock And RollDylanRolling StonesGoing StrongCrosbyTchaikovskyRock And Roll MusicSantana Author:Bill Walton
“Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you.” MomentsGamesWinningLove YouDadBasketballShotsMy DadDearShootingImaginaryRollingSockTubesI Fell In Love With You Author:Kobe Bryant
“Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.” StoriesKidsWinningStarsWifeWrittenWeekNew YorkStonesMadMy WifeReviewsHostBobRollingThunderDylanNew York TimesAssignmentsRolling StonesGinsberg Author:Nat Hentoff