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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility. I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.

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• When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Music
  • Find

• A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Time
  • Movie
  • House

• There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Long
  • Nice
  • Wonder

• Salesmen always need something to sell.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Need
  • Something
  • Sell

• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Long
  • Night
  • Me

• It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • People
  • World
  • Try

• I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Long
  • Father

• They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Name

• There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Duty
  • Consequences

• 'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • America
  • Society
  • End

• I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Never
  • Sex
  • Successful

• The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Best
  • Humility

• I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Family
  • She
  • Father

• Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Work
  • Past
  • Trade

• I care deeply about the direction of our country.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Country

• You are what you love. Not what loves you.

  

  Charlie Kaufman

• It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

  

  Lorde
  • Writing
  • Emotion
  • Lyric

• The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Life
  • Honor
  • Masons

• If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite direction, and pictured Nature when she was 'young and wantoned [sic] in her prime', as moving with the lame sedateness of advanced middle age. It became necessary, therefore, as Dr. [Samuel] Haughton expresses it, 'to hurry up the phenomena'.

  

  William Johnson Sollas
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Moving

• Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.

  

  Rumi
  • Study
  • See
  • Differ

• You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Great
  • Person

• One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility. I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.

  

  Adrian Matejka
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