Ann Wilson Quotes

I trained myself by doing other people's songs in clubs way back when. And so I have no pride about doing covers. I love it. And being a song interpreter, to me, is just as important as, you know, putting your own thing out there. It's all about the soul - where the soul comes from.

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• Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Inspiration

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Body

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Writing
  • Found

• I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Like
  • Secrets
  • Boxes

• If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Up
  • Goal
  • Moon

• I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

• Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Life
  • Own
  • Most

• Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  

  Iris Chang
  • You
  • Yourself
  • First

• There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Power
  • Bigger
  • Aphrodisiac

• You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Time
  • Home
  • Game

• At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Time
  • Journey
  • Busy

• I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

  

  Ian McShane
  • School
  • Happy
  • Teacher

• Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

  

  Quintilian
  • Wish
  • Wise
  • Fools

• I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Job
  • Day
  • Same

• The world is awaiting your gift - all you have to do is show up with the right intention!

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Up
  • World

• If you follow the trend, you'll always be right behind it.

  

  Lindsey Haun

• If Barack Obama goes on to win the election, there will be plenty of ink and video spent on chronicling the historic nature of the turnout among young voters and African-Americans. But as important as both constituencies have been to Obama - particularly in the primaries - it's Hispanics that could be putting him over the top on Nov. 4.

  

  Chuck Todd
  • Important
  • Nature

• The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Falling
  • Emptiness

• Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Childhood

• I trained myself by doing other people's songs in clubs way back when. And so I have no pride about doing covers. I love it. And being a song interpreter, to me, is just as important as, you know, putting your own thing out there. It's all about the soul - where the soul comes from.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • People
  • Important
  • Soul