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“I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.”

Thinking Way Two Life Is Generations Creating Drawing Good And Bad Pitfalls

Author:Elvis Costello

“I really enjoyed Merrill Markoe's Guide To Glamorous Living, which was a weird hybrid reality/sketch thing I wrote, directed, and hosted, with two male-model bimbos whom I made agree with everything I said.”

Made Said Two Reality Models Agree Males Guides Enjoyed Glamorous Hybrid

Author:Merrill Markoe

“If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really describe in words, and so what you do is to put music to them and in this way you make contact with the words, through the musical thing. It happens when two feelings come together and they do something together and they compliment each other.”

Ifs Way Want Writing Two Feelings Happens Together Musical Contact Compliment

Author:Jim Capaldi

“When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do it, you gotta be ready to do it and it has to be something you care about. I've found something that I do care about.”

Ifs Years Two Care Life Is Found Half Ready Directors Two Years I Do Care

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I was collecting Barbies. I know... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.”

Knows Two Two Things Dishes Embarrassing Collecting Vintage Barbie Ebay

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.”

Ifs Giving Littles Persons Long Two Bits Hours Perfect Attention Minutes Little Bit Give Me Attention Span Short Attention Spans

Author:Courteney Cox

“Everyone feels like an underdog, at some point in their life. Even the best-looking people and the most athletic probably have a phase in their life - a year or two - where they're awkward or they have braces.”

People Feels Years Two Awkward Phases Athletic Underdog Braces

Author:Charlie Day

“I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.”

Thinking Two Country Similarity Cuisine Japanese Food Two Countries

Author:David Chang

“To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself.”

World Two Categories

Author:David First

“I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie era and the punk era, both of which had a set of codes and rules that you had to look and dress and think a certain way, and for sure, to be of a certain age.”

People Thinking Knows Way Looks Two Age Young Certain Dresses Eras Code Punk Hippie Dogmatic

Author:David First

“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”

Kind Two Different Nations Food Six Hundred Forty Different Kinds Cheese

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“I need energy every day. Whether I'm leaving home and going to practice or getting in the car with my two kids to take my son to school - I need all the energy I can get.”

Needs I Can Two Home Kids School Energy Practice Car Son Leaving My Son Leaving Home

Author:Chris Paul

“When it comes to the environment and global warming from emissions, it has to be dealt with in one of two ways - preemptive regulations, which I don't agree with, or with private property principles. Nobody has the right to pollute their neighbors' air or water or land.”

Way Two Water Principles Environment Air Land Agree Property Neighbor Global Warming Regulation Two Ways Emissions Private Property

Author:Ron Paul

“I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.”

Two Different Character Film Hours Differences Acting Television Storytelling Crafts Multiple

Author:David Duchovny

“My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It’s a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that’s almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.”

Two Body Animal Sea Thirds Sticks My Favorite Teeth Length Whales Unicorn Wild Animal

Author:Kesha

“I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.”

Ifs Trying Two Moments Meditation Changed Phones Seconds

Author:Anderson Cooper

“The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen.”

People Looks Made Two Stories Bigs Natural Keys Easier Comfort Understood Screens Love Story Made It Chemistry Sensibility

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“We had no religion at all, but we were Jews in New Hampshire, and my sister - who is now a rabbi - said it best: We were, like, the only Jews in Bedford, New Hampshire, as well as the only Democrats, so we just kind of associated those two things together. My dad raised us to believe that paying taxes is an honor.”

Believe Wells Kind Said Two Together Dad Honor Taxes Democrat Raised My Dad Jew Two Things My Sister Rabbi Hampshire New Hampshire Paying Taxes

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I remember before I did my HBO special, Chris [Rock] screamed at me - in a loving way, but still. He was like, "You need to do 200 shows in a row and a month straight on the road before you even think about recording a special!" And I had literally booked two weeks on the road and then went right into the recording. It put me in a panic, but it also made me work harder and made me realize that everyone works differently, and that's okay.”

Thinking Way Needs Made Stills Two Shows Remember Realizing Week Special Rocks Hard Work Like You Months Okay Harder Panic Two Weeks Work Harder Hbo

Author:Judd Apatow

“I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl, or Elmo, or Yogi Bear and Booboo. If we didn't do it, she would scream at us. So, my wife and I would have adult conversations as Yogi Bear and Booboo. It was just a nightmare year.”

Ifs Years Two Voice Half Four Wife Bears Conversation Adults My Wife Nightmare Scream Woody Yogi Cowgirls Elmo Yogi Bear

Author:Judd Apatow

“The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.”

Littles Two Real Character Bits Term Hours Comedy Minutes Little Bit News Stuck Extras Plot Endearment Real Character Terms Of Endearment Fast Times

Author:Judd Apatow

“We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do what women can do therefore children are still mostly raised, hugely mostly raised by women and women in industrialized modern countries end up having two jobs one outside the home and one inside the home.”

Men Children Stills Two Ends Country Home Jobs Can Do Modern Men And Women Raised Two Jobs

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show.”

People Knows Persons Two Hard Shows Running Remember Used Black Rocks Months Black People Remember When Hbo Black Person

Author:Scott Raab

“A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him.”

Firsts Two School Guy Actors Black Acting Talking Comedy Right Now Murphy Brando Black Guys

Author:Scott Raab

“America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.”

Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including

“When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!”

Needs Two Earth Lasts Lying Masters Died Critics Colour Good Work Twisted Tubes Faded Workmen

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it's supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There's nothing sadder.Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.”

Looks Two Voice Horse Routes Carts Sideways

Author:Primo Levi

“Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.”

May Children Two Running House Strong Ten Built Stones Fairy Sheep Bricks Cherries Ponies Granite

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.”

Knows Men Littles Two Lying Wise Middle Fields Difficulty Extremes Not Interested There Is No God God Exists Middle Ground Traverse Two Extremes

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.”

Firsts Two Three Judging Impression Wheels Permit Screws First Impression Valve

Author:Anton Chekhov

“[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.”

Two Three Hours Laughing Failing Subjects Argument Tables Endless Phrases Fists Noticing Banging Wranglers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.”

Mean Two Whole Half Doubt Impossible Equal Mathematics Math Proof Lawyer Mathematical Programming Mathematician Mathematical Proof

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to invent. In fact, I keep myself occupied. But that allows other things to happen which I'm not controlling... the more I exercise my conscious mind, the more open the other things may find that they can come through.”

Mind May Two Facts Happens Lines Levels Movement Exercise Draws Conscious Rhythm Things To Do Organize Conscious Mind

Author:Bridget Riley

“I buy based on emotion, because I am fascinated with an object that I simply cannot live without. Although I often end up acquiring two or three works by an artist who particularly interests me, it's more for fear that a single one might get too lonely.”

Two Ends Might Artist Three Interest Emotion Objects Lonely Selling Fascinated

Author:Michael Audain

“What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the act of stepping back. It is the act of separating, and judging. It takes only one because the one becomes two.”

Two Self Judging Separating Chewing Stepping Back

Book:Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life

Source: Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life

“There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while. The other... is to look at his work through spectacles which will change its color and magnify or diminish it, so as to disguise it somehow to his eye, and make it look as though it were the work of another.”

Looks Two Helping Eye Color Judging His Eyes Devices Disguise Diminish Sculpture Sculptors Spectacles

Author:Gian Lorenzo Bernini

“In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted and use this energy. When you take a long jump, you must first take some steps backward. Then you run, and make the jump. Like this, you first withdraw, observe yourself, develop clarity and unlock the wisdom. Then you make a long jump into society, to serve society. These two steps cannot be separated.”

Mind Firsts Long Two Use Running Energy Attention Steps Focus Meditation Gains Clarity Purity Long Jump

Author:S. N. Goenka

“When I work out, I wear two in-the-ear hearing aids for comfort, and then I wear the behind-the-ears for my day-to-day non-physical activities, when I need maximum hearing and to communicate with people and do interviews!”

People Needs Two Behinds Comfort Activity Ears Communicate Work Out Hearing Aids Interviews Day To Day Maximum Physical Activity Hearing Aids

Author:Lou Ferrigno

“Love is to be two and at the same time one.”

Two Love Is

Author:Sonya Levien

“Near the top of the market, investors are extraordinarily optimistic because they've seen mostly higher prices for a year or two. The sell-offs witnessed during that span were usually brief. Even when they were severe, the market bounced back quickly and always rose to loftier levels. At the top, optimism is king, speculation is running wild, stocks carry high price/earnings ratios, and liquidity has evaporated. A small rise in interest rates can easily be the catalyst for triggering a bear market at that point.”

Years Two Running Interest Levels Bears Kings Higher Optimism Sells Rose Rate Optimistic Investors Earning Severe Speculation Catalyst Ratios Interest Rate High Prices Liquidity Running Wild

Author:Martin Zweig

“In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.”

Two Self Order Arms Discipline Majors Boss Self Discipline Arsenal Good Writers Stamina

Author:Leon Uris

“All we have observed is where moths do not spend the day. In 25 years we have found only two betularia on the tree trunks or walls adjacent to our traps (one on an appropriate background and one not), and none elsewhere”

Years Two Found Tree Wall Backgrounds Appropriate Elsewhere Traps Trunks Moths Tree Trunks

Author:Cyril Clarke

“I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.”

Ifs Kind Two Sometimes Shows Would Be Certain Theatre Two Things

Author:Hal Price

“After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to freeze my eggs.”

Want Two Courses Half Baby Married Eggs Engagement Freeze

Author:Sophie Monk

“Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.”

Giving Two Certain Black White Records Higher Demand Give Me Institutions Professors Elites Scholar Publication Credentials Higher Learning

Author:William Julius Wilson

“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed.”

Ifs Believe Doe Two Hands Doubt Essentials Vices Disaster Rational Faculty Vice Versa

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.”

People Two Government Law Party Divided Peculiar American Government

Author:Michael Lind

“How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time.”

Thinking Long Doe Two Book Moving Reading Memories Honest Long Time Skins South Brilliant Familiar Narrative Two Things Shed Shocking Straightforward

Author:Josephine Humphreys

“Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it......if I can only get the two acquainted.”

Ifs Feels Heart I Can Two Desire Wish Goal Achieve Reader Ambition My Ambition

Author:James Oliver Curwood

“There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.”

Source: The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963

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