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“I was really into R&B and stuff like that, so I really wanted to sing like Faith Evans or Mariah Carey. But I definitely don't have the skills to sing like that.”

Wanted Stuff Skills

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“It's never the same relationship. I see my job as filling in the blanks. Whatever it is that the artist lacks in the process of making a record, I'm supposed to fill that in. And sometimes it's a lot of stuff and I have to hector them about working on the material and that sort of thing. Sometimes you have an artist that's really fairly self-sufficient; they just need another ear to offer some objective criticism, but otherwise pretty much know what they're doing. It varies a lot.”

Knows Needs Self Sometimes Jobs Artist Stuff Process Records Materials Offers Criticism Ears Objectives Sufficient Filling Vary Self Sufficient Hector Filling In

Author:Todd Rundgren

“There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.”

Long Fun Stuff Months Periods Six Draws Drawing Six Months Absorbing

Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“I really do know what I want with my life. I think that keeps me from making bad decisions and spending time doing stuff I don't enjoy.”

Thinking Knows Want Stuff Enjoy Decision Spending Spending Time Bad Decision

Author:Tove Styrke

“I wanted to take my writing to another level. I wanted to write stuff that was personal for real. It's one thing to write a lyric that sounds nice in that line - that's not very tricky - but it's a different thing to write something that sounds nice and actually comes from someplace real.”

Writing Different Real Wanted Stuff Sound Lines Levels Nice One Thing Different Things Tricky

Author:Tove Styrke

“I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music. Yeah, I like some country stuff - old country stuff. I might not enjoy Billy Ray Cyrus or anything. But, you know, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, early Johnny Cash - absolutely.”

People Thinking Knows Country Might Stuff Enjoy Yeah Wide Variety Rays Cash Nelson Variety Of Music

Author:Charlie Day

“The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.”

Book Stuff Ego Versions

Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like Everwood that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny. I've always tried to find a funny angle on things, and 99 percent of the time, it just doesn't work.”

Stuff Directors Percent Angle Stopping Being Funny

Author:Chris Pratt

“I do have rules, and etiquette things. I think it's a southern thing too, to an extent. I'll hold the door for someone, but if they don't say, "Thank you," it pisses me off. I say, "Yes, ma'am," and, "Yes, sir." Stuff that is maybe archaic in a lot of ways, but that's how I was raised, and I don't think there's really any harm in that.”

Ifs Thinking Way Stuff Doors Raised Harm Southern Etiquette Saying Thank You

Author:Chris Black

“The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.”

People Way I Can Hard Dies Stuff Deals Watches Violence Seeing Harder Hard Times Horrific

Author:Matthew Lillard

“I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.”

Thinking Social Stuff Scene Creating Tied

Author:Diplo

“I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.”

“I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.”

Book Stuff Fans Comic Comic Book Nerd Geek

Author:John Barrowman

“You aren't always going to make stuff that everybody does. The sooner that you just realize that and accept that, the better. At best, hopefully, you will like it, every time, and that might not even happen. It's the nature of your work. It's just what comes with it. So, it makes it easier to deal with anybody criticizing you or anything thinking you're wonderful when you realize that you just need to focus in this one area, which is your creative fulfillment and enjoyment.”

Thinking Needs Doe Might Happens Stuff Realizing Deals Accepting Creative Focus Wonderful Easier Areas Hopefully Fulfillment Enjoyment Working It Criticize Hoping For The Best

Author:Sharlto Copley

“It got to a point where there were so many apps and stuff on my phone that I started getting overwhelmed because there were so many things to check. Just Instagram and Twitter are what I stick to these day.”

Stuff Sticks Phones Checks These Days Overwhelmed Instagram Apps

Author:Kaitlyn Dever

“I don't think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don't really want to spend much time listening to it again.”

People Thinking Want Long Stuff Listening Long Time Old Stuff

Author:Kate Bush

“In the two years of preparing material for shows, I realized there are elements that are definitely going to work live, but might not be the most exciting thing to put on a record. And there's stuff that I really love but it falls flat live.”

Years Two Shows Might Fall Stuff Records Materials Elements Exciting I Realized Two Years Flats Preparing Going To Work Exciting Things

Author:Girl Talk

“I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do much else. I don't really listen to a great deal of music. I love music, but since I spend a lot of time in the studio, we probably watch a movie rather than listen to albums. I get to hear stuff, but not on the grand scale.”

Stuff Deals Watches My Family Edges Albums Studios Scales Music Love I Love Music

Author:Kate Bush

“I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.”

Together Used Stuff Materials Various Woods Clay

Author:Joe Fafard

“I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.”

Thinking Happens Stuff Obvious Laying Down

Author:Joe

“As for two years from now... who know where it'll be. I think we'll ideally be doing a lot of the same stuff, but maybe with spell checking.”

Thinking Knows Years Two Stuff Two Years Spells

Author:Rob Malda

“Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun.”

People World Eye Stuff Failing Birth Ears Rage Socialism Capitalist Pregnant Socialist Bourgeoisie

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I really comprehend the fact that some of what I have to say sounds a little weird. But the more and more I purge myself of the stuff that had my focus so turned away from God, the more I shred myself, the more I have a greater connection to God. And what I know now that I didn't know then is that's why I'm here.”

Knows Littles Facts Stuff Sound Greater Focus Connections

Author:Stephen Baldwin

“I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.”

Thinking Way Three Stuff Very Good My Favorite Sculpture

Author:Chuck Close

“You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.”

Knows Want Trying Stuff Experiments Bunch

Author:Ira Glass

“I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.”

Thinking Facts Would Be Stuff Stage Proud Musician Athlete Being True Injury

Author:Paul Stanley

“I like things pretty reduced. I don't understand how people live with so much stuff around them, because you can't focus on it, and after a while it ends up becoming absorbed. It's not as if anything's really being appreciated. To me all that stuff is some desperate message to everyone about who you are, like bumper stickers.”

People Ifs Ends Stuff Focus Becoming Messages Who You Are Desperate Appreciated Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker Being Appreciated

Author:Rick Owens

“I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff.”

Stuff Pilates Cardiovascular

Author:Teri Garr

“I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness.”

Heart Country Stuff Darkness Western Cool Stuff

Author:Theophilus London

“When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.”

Want Writing Play Guy Found Stuff Hollywood Being The Best Caucasian

Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.”

People Kids School Used Stuff Crazy Catholic Drag Pro Life Crazy People Catholic School

Author:Tim Heidecker

“I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.”

Long Reason Bigs Political Stuff News Jokes Shelves Shelf Life Old News

Author:Tim Heidecker

“I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.”

People Stuff Design

Author:Dionne Bromfield

“I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.”

People Certain Order Given Stuff Enjoy Amount Projects Come Up Thrive Collaboration

Author:William Kempe

“When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.”

Pain Stuff Locks

Author:Rachel Gibson

“My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.”

Kind Wanted School Stuff Parent My Own Figures Dad Let Me My Dad Lectures Dyslexic

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff, banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian crap.”

Ifs Want Believe Real Social Stuff Mass Weak Golden Dawn Crap Banking Projection Spoons Make Believe Satanic Social Science Bending Shamanism Sorcery Real Stuff

Author:Hakim

“All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.”

Feels Art Stuff Ancient Tied Angst

Author:Paul Beatty

“I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.”

People Thinking Use Would Be Games Stuff Worry Worst Marketing

Author:Jane McGonigal

“I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.”

Thinking Way Writing I Can Hard Dies Stuff Worst Paper Papers Blogs Columns Ephemeral Peru

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.”

Heart Ends Care Romance Lying Stuff Justice Fiction Moral Fine Reader Lessons Conversation Essence Revenge Hungry Manners Good Man Repentance Sentiments Good Manners

Author:Alberto Manguel

“It's not what the price of gold is that matters, but rather how much stuff it will buy.”

Matter Stuff Gold

Author:Michael Maloney

“It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.”

Stuff Week Bags Mediocre

Author:Tiger Woods

“You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.”

Thinking Feels Play Light Stuff Sound Visuals Arena Really Cool Larger Than Life Sound Systems

Author:Dan Auerbach

“Usually the hard stuff you’re forced to do makes you learn a lot.”

Hard Stuff

Author:Lauren Barnholdt

“Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.”

Humans Stuff Sports Competition

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.”

Said Today Stuff Understanding Communication

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in...at least for 10 minutes.”

Needs Able Stuff Powerful Minutes Overcoming Deeper Stuck Touching Hanuman

Author:Krishna Das

“Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.”

People May Easy Stuff Cutting Activity Digital Cheating Illegal

Author:G. Hannelius

“I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.”

Thinking Men Trying Kind Mean Life Is Stuff Can Do Lines My Favorite All Kinds All Time Dry Good And Bad Rainy Umbrella Rainy Day

Author:Valerie Thomas

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