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“I'm a SoundCloud, online kind of artist. It's not like back in the day when everyone was like linking up physically to do music. But with the album, I did have my first experience with meeting with a producer and us making things from scratch.”

Firsts Kind Artist Meetings Albums Producers Online Scratches Back In The Day Soundcloud

Author:Cakes da killa

“The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.”

Giving Certain Moral Truth Is Scary Pockets Scratches Fiber Gauges Veneer Moral Fiber

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I never did well meeting strangers, so my favorite part of partying as a couple was that I didn't need to strike up conversation from scratch. If you've ever had to go out and meet new people on your own, you would understand. It can be a bit of an awkward situation. If you're already out at a party with someone you know, it takes that pressure off.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Wells Bits Party Situation Couple Conversation Pressure Meetings My Favorite Stranger Strikes Awkward Scratches Meeting New People Awkward Situations

Author:Andrew W.K.

“Generally I'll keep 95% of what I sing on that first scratch vocal take. Sometimes that idea will ferment for a long time, and sometimes I"ll be close enough to my studio and have enough time (kind of rare these days) to go and work on the idea. Not every song is super easy though.”

Firsts Kind Long Ideas Sometimes Enough Song Easy Long Time Studios These Days Scratches Vocal Enough Time

Author:St. Lucia

“I can honestly say from my experience, my family and I had to start from scratch. We left Venezuela back in 1998 and sold the few things we had to come to America in search of the American dream. We went through really tough times. There were moments where we were wondering are we going to make it.”

I Can Moments Dream America Left Wonder Tough My Family Honestly American Dream Scratches Tough Times Venezuela

Author:Wilmer Valderrama

“I make this really good tomato soup from scratch and I do it with grilled cheese sandwich dippers on the side. That's really, really, really good. And my grandma loves that. My grandma is the best cook ever so for her to love that makes me think it's probably the best thing I make.”

Thinking Sides Cooks Best Things Cheese Soup Scratches Sandwiches Grandma Tomatoes My Grandma Grilled Cheese Cheese Sandwiches

Author:Gigi Hadid

“That's one of the benefits of having many seasons behind you, is you have this wealth of characters that you can reintroduce, and that have a history with your current regulars, so you don't have to start from scratch.”

Character Wealth Behinds Benefits Seasons Currents Scratches Behind You

Author:Alex Gansa

“My repertoire is small, but I can make a pretty tasty pasta sauce from scratch.”

I Can Scratches Sauce Pasta Tasty

Author:Cynthia Addai-Robinson

“When you're shopping, too, you feel like you're designing as you're shopping. You're like, 'I love this, but I wish it was shorter or I wish it was purple. I wish it was a different fabric,' you know. It starts there, but then when you have to start from scratch, it really comes with an idea first, and then... you want to tweak and then you come up with something else and you want to add to it or change. It's fun. It's like an ocean - you can do whatever.”

Knows Want Feels Firsts Ideas Different Fun Wish Can Do Design Like You Ocean Add Come Up Shopping Fabric Scratches Purple Tweak

Author:Rihanna

“I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.”

Writing Firsts Ideas Computer Fingers Scratches

Author:Mary Ann Hoberman

“The Germans now seem the primary example of this [institutional-maintenance type] - which is another reason to scratch the head at their seeming determination to force the whole Church to adopt the Catholic Lite approach that has, in a bizarre inversion, emptied German churches of congregants while vastly expanding the German Church's bureaucracies.”

Reason Whole Seems Force Church Example Type Approach Determination Catholic Primaries Bureaucracy Bizarre Expanding Scratches Seeming Maintenance Inversions

Author:George Weigel

“People say, "How do you get into the British film industry?" There is no British film industry, there are just people making films and finding their own way. It's not like in the States where there are studios and there's an actual infrastructure to it; there's just nothing here. You make it from scratch a lot of the time.”

People Way States Film Industry Findings Studios British Infrastructure Scratches Film Industry British Film

Author:Ben Wheatley

“I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.”

Years Actors Acting Tricks Rely Movie Bags Scratches Wipe Slate

Author:Christian Bale

“So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.”

Giving Blood Feet Red Flow Exciting Legs Cells Hopefully Someday Scratches Laboratory Tubes Exciting Things Pipeline Injection Blood Flow Blood Cells

Author:Robert Lanza

“The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.”

Amount Familiar Fortunate Accents Scratches Israeli

Author:Eric Bana

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”

“When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.”

Ifs Men Way Literature Cures Pens Scratches Hygiene Itching

Author:Samuel Lover

“I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.”

Needs Bigs I Want You Scratches I Need You Itching

Author:Christopher Meloni

“Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.”

Film Scratches

Author:Lea Michele

“If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.”

Ifs Rich Reaching Pie Scratches Brownies Yummy

Author:Marisa Miller

“Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.”

People Knows Believe Passion I Believe Quality Produce Garden Israel Admire Desert Presidential Guts Patriotism Idealism Scratches Idealism And Realism Jewish National

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.”

Want Home Scream Scratches

Author:Jeremy Renner

“My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.”

Knows Doe Made Stills Used Stuff Half Know How Mom Garden And Love My Mom Bread Labour Take Time Scratches Peanuts Jelly Peanut Butter Time And Love Great Garden

Author:Julia Roberts

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

Source: Cosmos

“Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.”

People Book Sometimes Jobs Film Opinion Serious Critics Scratches Gadgets Generalities

Author:Will Self

“My family and I built my whole career from scratch.”

Whole Careers Built My Family Scratches

Author:Maria Sharapova

“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.”

Dad Ruins Fatherhood Scratches Fathers Day Father Son Your Dad Being A Father Being A Dad Funny Parent Happy First Fathers Day Fathers Day Inspirational Funny Fathers Day Funny Father Fathers Day Card Best Dad Fatherhood Inspirational Funny Dad

Author:Jon Stewart

“Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'”

Humans Used Boys Blood Dirty Call Me Sweat Nails Scratches Naughty Filthy Manicures Blood And Sweat

Author:Orlando Bloom

“You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.”

Asks Easy Business Company News Scratches Bad News Watson Tidy Tidings

Book:Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond

Source: Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond

“Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.”

Seasons Starting Scratches

Author:Usain Bolt

“Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.”

Christian Religion Atheism Positive Atheism Scratches Pagan Spoiled

Author:Israel Zangwill

“The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.”

People Knows Problem Suffering Issues Politician Scratches Indigenous Syndromes Aboriginal Seagull

Author:Tony Abbott

“I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?”

Wealth Millions Advice Investment Managers Empires Publishing Scratches

Author:Felix Dennis

“Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.”

People Tragedy Surface Contemplation Scratches Bourne Scratching The Surface

Book:Youth and Life

Source: Youth and Life

“Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?”

Ifs Way Long Made Philosophy Progress Long Time Genuine Reactions Cures Spots Scratches Irritation Itching

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by.”

Heart Littles Ends Done Able Walks Week Depression Wounds Versions Get Up Episodes Scratches Breakdown Depressive

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.”

Mind Buddhist Swings Monkeys Stopping Limbs Scratches Spit Howl Pray Love Eat Pray Love Book Eat Pray And Love Best Eat Pray Love Eat Love Pray Bali Eat Pray Love Monkey Mind

Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Did you know that wasn’t me, the other Max?” I asked. “Yeah.” “When?” “Right away.” “How?” I persisted. “We look identical. She even had identical scars and scratches. She was wearing my clothes. How could you tell us apart?” He turned to me and grinned, making my world brighter. “She offered to cook breakfast.”

Knows World Looks Clothes Yeah Cooks Breakfast Scar Scratches Identical Brighter Max Did You Know Faxness

Book:School's Out--Forever: A Maximum Ride Novel

Source: School's Out--Forever: A Maximum Ride Novel

“Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.”

Children Two War Clear Cutting Generations Blood Mines Drug Disease Labor Slavery Fortune Pollution Scratches Extinction Monopoly Mills Child Labor

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.”

Ifs Littles Said Eye Prayer Goes On Praying Kings Forgiving Far Away Mary Her Eyes Flirting Scratches Jane Forgive Me

Book:The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)

“And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.”

Ifs Way Littles Might Girl Cutting Duty Come Up Painful Gentleman Throat Offense Scratches

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”

Funny Humorous Witty Sarcastic Disappointed Cynicism Idealism Scratches Disillusionment Idealist Cynic

Author:George Carlin

“Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.”

Knows World Mean Littles Said Hands This World Rounds Scratches Grease Yossarian

Book:Catch-22: A Novel

Source: Catch-22: A Novel

“Tis but a scratch!" "A scratch? Your arm's off!" "No it isn't." "Then what's that?" "Oh come on, pansy!”

Arms Scratches Pansies

Author:Graham Chapman

“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”

Heart Made Might Made It Scratches

Book:The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

“I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won't even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success!”

Use Running Able Fall Worry Magic Noise Brands Shooting Loud Formulas Scratches Up And Down Prescriptions Great Success Brand New Staircases Jitters

Book:The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

“Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy”

Crazy Wall Scratches

Book:In the Skin of a Lion

Source: In the Skin of a Lion

“Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.”

Bigs Culture Reading Creativity Environment Hero Conversation Prize Mentor Tickets Scratches Lottery Lottery Ticket

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.”

Ifs Knows Heart Has Beens Earth Force Return Remains Breasts Strokes Scratches Earthquakes You Again

Book:The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

“in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.”

Lying Waiting Sound Prayer Sea Drink Bird Drinking Phones Rings Idiot Paradise Bottles Sunlight Odds Scratches Symphony Crooked Dwarfs Dwarves Cupboards Against The Odds

Author:Charles Bukowski

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