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I don't think I'm ready for New York.

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• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Jazz

• I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Parents

• A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Songs
  • Worth
  • Heartbreak

• Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to seek out stuff that sort of more along the lighter fare. I have more fun on those sets than I do on drama sets just because when it's heavy, it's heavy, and it's hard to get away from it.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• BRAC originated in the 1960s under President Kennedy as the Department of Defense (DOD) had to realign its base structure after World War II and the Korean War. At that time, the DOD was able to close bases without congressional interference, and 60 bases were closed in the 1960s.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Time
  • Great
  • Friends

• Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Feel

• People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

  

  Feist
  • Death
  • Really
  • London

• Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentle.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • May
  • Gentle
  • Magnificent

• From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Feel
  • See

• When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Mind
  • Job

• If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Die
  • Alive

• Greene is a Jekyll and Hyde character, who has not succeeded in fusing the two sides of himself into any kind of harmony. There is conflict within him, and therefore he is liable to pursue conflict without.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Character

• I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Mistake
  • Sex
  • Connection

• Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• They came here-the exile and the stranger, brave but frightened-to find a place where a man could be his own man. They made a covenant with this land. Conceived in justice, written in liberty, bound in union, it was meant one day to inspire the hopes of all mankind; and it binds us still. If we keep its terms, we shall flourish.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Justice
  • Brave

• Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick of myself. But then another idea starts percolating. It usually begins with the narrator's name, then some idea that intrigues me about her life or situation. I try to ignore it as long as I can, because I know when I start writing, I'll be right back into it, every single day. But eventually, I just have to. It's a compulsion!

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Trying

• When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.

  

  Rich Cohen
  • Problem
  • Despair
  • Terrorism

• I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.

  

  Xiaolu Guo
  • Language
  • Dangerous
  • Dubious

• Lemaitre has been one of my inspirations ever since I started making music.

  

  Kygo
  • Music

• I don't think I'm ready for New York.

  

  Art Tatum