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“I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box.”

Thinking Wanted Stuff Records Boxes

Author:Ryan Adams

“Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.”

Thinking Sometimes Stuff Great Things

Author:Jamie Bell

“Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'”

Wells Stuff Chance Prepared Favors

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.”

Life Stuff Creation Gestures Extravagant

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.”

Stuff Old Stuff

Author:Lou Reed

“I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons.”

Body Together Stuff Careers Bones Glue

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.”

Men Writing Hands Together Poetry Stuff Pieces Cups Beast Pie Coal Rotten Writing Poetry Wild Beasts

Book:Windows that open inward: images of Chile

Source: Windows that open inward: images of Chile

“If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.”

Ifs Trying Littles Enough Stuff Pieces Feet New York Paper Good Enough Sticky Old New York

Book:41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition

Source: 41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition

“No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.”

People Stuff Gardening Famine Toothpaste

Book:Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

“I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.”

Made Desire Stuff Morning Creative Get Up Making Money Every Morning Creative Work Sexual Desire

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.”

Ifs Giving Trying Firsts Ends Night Easy Stuff Deals Tree Special Figures Late Tough Rain Seasons Miracle Plant Seeds Soil Sunshine What If Wow Arrangements Reserved

Author:Jim Rohn

“Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated”

Ifs Sometimes Stuff Jew Baskets Laundry Drawers

Author:Franz Kafka

“This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry about, like making sure the people that actually matter don't try any funny stuff.”

People Trying Matter Stuff Worry New York Bridges Zone Combat Angle Tunnels Funny Stuff

Author:Cynthia Heimel

“The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.”

Stuff My Own Truth Is Assuming Casts Hearing Embarrassed Rehearsal

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.”

World Stuff Secret Fine Outside World

Author:Eli Siegel

“Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.”

Should Artist Stuff Interest

Author:David Hockney

“I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.”

Thinking Needs Looks Different Young Choices Stuff Creative Environment Style Healthy Weak Minorities Different Styles

Author:Peter Gabriel

“Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.”

Art Language Stuff Childhood Advertising Visuals Visual Art

Author:Damien Hirst

“I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.”

Asks Stuff Term Media Ask Me

Author:Damien Hirst

“Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.”

Want Stuff Waiting Minutes Military Officials Not Interested Agriculture Missiles Briefing

Author:Sean William Scott

“I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.”

Stuff Crazy Eccentric Versace

Author:Lady Gaga

“It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.”

People Christian Belief Stuff Cities Christianity Serious Picks Surprise Buzz Surprise Me

Author:Charles Colson

“The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.”

Important Stuff

Author:Steve Pavlina

“I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.”

Writing Real Stories Use Seems Stuff Confused Revelations

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.”

World Looks Doe Reason Enough Problem Stuff Series Oneself Studios Deeper Deeper Meaning

Author:Anish Kapoor

“John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.”

Knows Matter Actors Stuff Know How Creative Incredibles No Fear Vessel Censure

Author:Patti LuPone

“I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.”

Writing Stuff Fiction Science Fiction

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.”

Firsts Guy Stuff Sin Cities New York Drawing Noir Vermont Tights Sin City

Author:Frank Miller

“My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.”

Enough Winning Stuff Loses Baseball Good Enough Pitching

Author:Greg Maddux

“I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.”

Knows Writing Littles Kids Easy Stuff Black Farms Grandfather Little Kid Spiders My Grandfather Widows Boyhood Black Widow

Author:Kary Mullis

“My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.”

Thinking Country Stuff Fiction Fantasy Bookshops

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.”

Ifs Knows Looks Doe Whole Literature Stuff My Own Proud Highest Regard Flaws Right Words

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.”

Wells Littles Whole Problem Form Culture Stuff Bits Can Do Television Listening Little Bit Various Australia Accents No Problem American Culture Tricky Whole Family

Author:Guy Pearce

“A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.”

“I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas.”

Stuff Germany Bugs Tarantulas

Author:William Petersen

“I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.”

Writing Believe Book Enough Stuff Stupid Substitutes Writing A Book Blogging

Author:Neil Gaiman

“When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.”

Looks Young Stuff Imagination Gone Starting Pot Stew Young Writers

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".”

Want Said Book Able Reading Stuff Imagination Challenges Inspire Scripts Capture Not Interested My Imagination Books And Reading Turned Down

Author:Karl Urban

“One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.”

People Made Self Done Fun Stuff Talking Accepting Example Conscious Disappear Who I Am Flaws Self Conscious How To Love Love Myself

Author:Ricky Williams

“My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are.".”

Care Stuff Parent Rooms Treats Clean Don't Care I Don't Care Cleanliness Mtv

Author:Pete Wentz

“Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.”

World Facts Reality Stuff Realizing Brain Appearing

Author:Daniel Gilbert

“It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies.”

Thinking Mind Real Seems Stuff Tragedy

Author:Gregg Allman

“For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You-Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.”

Games Stuff Watches Player Television Football Beats Tubes Just Live

Author:Jermain Defoe

“You have to celebrate the gifts because life is so hard and I think once you realize life's gonna be hard, the good stuff really comes forward.”

Thinking Hard Life Is Stuff Realizing Celebrate Realize Life

Author:Dana Reeve

“Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!.”

Firsts Enough Stuff Partners Prodigies

Author:Bobby Sherman

“Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.”

Made Soul Moments Past Stuff Process Memories Becoming

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.”

Ideas Stuff Brain Consciousness Quality No Idea Subjective

Author:Richard Davidson

“I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.”

Children Art Stills Use Certain Stuff Lines Creativity Talent Taught College Color Draws Collecting

Author:Beverly L. Kaye

“I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.”

I Can Stuff Huge Relax Enjoyable Not Happy Snl Workload

Author:Fred Armisen

“I love Twitter, you know? I try to read everything I can on Twitter. You get so much nice feedback about stuff, you know you just put out a sentence and everybody laughs or everybody's just sending something back. It's amazing. Same with Facebook, you know? I'm a lot on Facebook and it's just - it's just amazing. And YouTube, of course, as well.”

Knows Trying Wells I Can Courses Stuff Laughing Nice Sentences Feedback Youtube

Author:Tiesto

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