Amanda Joy Michalka (AJ Michalka) Quotes
Most of the time you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.Amanda Joy Michalka Aly & AJ
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
Foster Friess -
As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz -
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
C. K. Williams -
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
Ednita Nazario
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
Sam Trammell -
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Gary Becker -
The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
Omar Bongo -
Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
Adam Beach -
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Karl Popper -
Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
Wayne Huizenga
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
Vanessa Mae -
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
Warren Bennis -
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Patrick White -
Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
Gavin Hood -
I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
Felicity Jones -
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
Patrick Ness
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I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
Billy Childish -
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
Jonathan Lethem -
The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.
H. L. Mencken -
There was a when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.
Adrian Rogers -
I would never really listen to my own music or whatever, but I write music so I can deal with things and I hope that some people can relate in that. Maybe help people, or just bring a smile to their face or make them feel cool or something.
Zachary Wayne Farro -
Most of the time you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.
Amanda Joy Michalka Aly & AJ