Melanie Martinez I auditioned for ‘The Voice’ because I really wanted to try and figure out a way to get myself out there. I really couldn’t imagine doing anything else – music was the only thing that I really clung to. – Melanie Martinez Auditioned Quotes Clung Quotes Figure Quotes Imagine Quotes Music Quotes Voice Quotes I went to the carnival a lot. The carousel was my favorite ride as a kid. I wanted people to understand that I have my own music, and I didn’t want to sing other people’s songs at shows.
Isaac Brock As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it’s worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I’m trying to say. I can’t ‘Bono’ it. – Isaac Brock
Charlie Ergen Blackjack is very scientific. There’s always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a card, increase your bet, bet big or bet small. There’s absolutely a right and wrong answer. – Charlie Ergen
Anne Enright I’m starting to think my narrators’ sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me. – Anne Enright
F Scott FitzgeraldHopeRomantic I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t. – F Scott Fitzgerald
FinanceJonathan KozolMedical Savage Inequalities’ was about school finance, and ‘Amazing Grace’ primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with ‘Ordinary Resurrections,’ I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go. – Jonathan Kozol
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