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• I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Feels

• Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Time
  • Age
  • Past

• I think enjoying each other in a creative way is usually a result of when you're doing something that might be problematic - might be a little difficult to uncover. I've done it once in a stage production; we came in for two days and, just as an experiment, the director had us reading each other's roles. You hear another voice interpreting a line that maybe you were having trouble with. It can be very helpful. But we weren't really in the kind of situation where that was necessary.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • Done
  • Reading
  • Result

• Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Hands
  • Drug
  • Alcohol

• I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Drawing
  • Corners
  • Poorest

• I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Receive
  • I Consider
  • Alexander

• It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Way
  • Observation
  • Dig

• Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.

  

  William Hague
  • Promise
  • Half
  • Brown

• Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Song
  • Blur

• You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Talent
  • Credit

• The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

  

  James Hansen
  • Human
  • Changes
  • Irreversible

• I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • School
  • Art
  • Kind

• Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

  

  Susan B. Anthony
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rights

• There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

  

  William Stafford
  • Enough
  • Standards
  • Block

• I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

  

  Chase Utley
  • Trying
  • Games
  • Tough

• Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and they actually move around quite a lot - just very, very slowly.

  

  Ann Burton
  • Energy
  • Moving
  • Order

• You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

  

  Heather O'Reilly
  • Lows