Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
Garrett Dillahunt -
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
Jack Dee -
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Karen Elson -
Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah -
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
Carice van Houten -
The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
Edmund White
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
Madeleine Stowe -
I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
Washed Out -
I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
Kallam Anji Reddy -
People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
Gary Hume -
Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
Nathan Fillion -
I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
Iman -
I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
T. Boone Pickens -
Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
Yami Gautam -
I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
Daniel Bryan -
Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
Forest Whitaker
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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
Billie Jean King -
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
Fritz Kreisler -
In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.
Lisa Cholodenko -
The '60s were a time of great change in American music.
Alexandra Patsavas -
Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty