Matthew Ramsey Quotes
This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
Quotes to Explore
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There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.
Canelo Alvarez -
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
Ed Emberley -
Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
Garth Brooks -
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
Carlos Fuentes -
It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
Yasser Arafat
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
Barbara Corcoran -
A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.
P. J. O'Rourke -
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
J. Cole -
I pick up on other people's discomfort.
Carice van Houten -
I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
Viggo Mortensen
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I hate wasting people's time.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
Patrick deWitt -
People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
Carlisle Floyd -
Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
Yossi Sarid
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Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.
Ted Naifeh -
Some people are real, some people are good, some people are fake and some people are real good at being fake.
Patrick Henry -
Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.
Mark Foley -
I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'
Blake Shelton -
My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck. And her life continuously appears in mine, in the words that I've uttered, in which there's often an echo of hers, in a particular gesture that is an adaptation of a gesture of hers, in my less which is such because of her more, in my more which is the yielding to the force of her less.
Elena Ferrante -
This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.
Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion