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• Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Time
  • You
  • Taken

• My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Writing
  • Girl
  • Understanding

• Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Death
  • Funny
  • Humor

• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Work
  • Music
  • Love

• Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Success
  • Political
  • Creativity

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Kids hate anyone who is different.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Hate

• Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Problems
  • Facts
  • Solution

• When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Race
  • Anticipation

• It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Work
  • You
  • Energy

• One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Theater
  • Plays

• Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Music
  • Better
  • Genius

• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Age
  • Body
  • Civilization

• Spain's parties must steel themselves to do the sensible thing and treat the Catalonia issue with the seriousness it deserves.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Treat
  • Steel
  • Seriousness

• Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Broken

• There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.

  

  Jake Shimabukuro
  • Music
  • Kids

• What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Why
  • Question
  • Written

• I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

  

  Nicole Appleton All Saints
  • Humor
  • Sexy
  • Sensitivity

• It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Music
  • Free

• I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the guitar. I think regular touring has forced me to play the guitar more than anything else, which is why I'm probably most confident playing that. And whist I'd be lost if I couldn't play it too, I dislike the totemic worship of the thing... magazines, collectors, and so on. I enjoy struggling with instruments I can't really play.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Instruments

• Look realistically at espionage thrillers again. They're not only alive, readers are excited about them.

  

  Gayle Lynds