John Shirley Quotes
I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.
John Shirley
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I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
Ed Sheeran
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
Naomi Scott
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Carla Bruni
Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.
Caleb Johnson
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson
All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
Zendaya
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
Ralph Richardson
It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.
Kevin Spacey
My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
Gabrielle Zevin
We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.
Rebecca Makkai
I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.
John Shirley