Samuel Ervin Beam As a listener, I like shorter records, because you can really absorb the songs. – Samuel Ervin Beam Absorb Quotes Listener Quotes Records Quotes Shorter Quotes Songs Quotes At the end of the day, I can’t sit down and write a song to sell. I went to art school, wanting to be a painter and then I got into photography. Then it was movies, and I liked the images. One of the things that interested me in film was that I was communicating in images. That was something I did intuitively and could not even talk about until I started having to do interviews.
Robert Pires When people ask me the best player I played with, I always say Dennis Bergkamp. He just had so much class. – Robert Pires
Chris Robinson I never thought I’d be on the cover of the ‘Atlanta Journal’ unless I killed someone. – Chris Robinson
Paula Pell My specialty at ‘SNL’ was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, ‘Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What’s a better big laugh for this towards the end? What’s a better physical joke in this?’ And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well. – Paula Pell
Dee Rees For me, Sundance always felt big. It’s not the only way to make your way, but for me, it was definitely that critical link between struggling artist, kind of working on my own, to actually working professionally and being connected and being seen. – Dee Rees
Chinua AchebeFood I tell my students, it’s not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What’s more difficult is to identify with someone you don’t see, who’s very far away, who’s a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. – Chinua Achebe
Richard Russo About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn’t find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren’t good were good. – Richard Russo
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