Joe Strummer We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer’s accent. That’s just pretending to be something you ain’t. – Joe Strummer Accent Quotes American Quotes English Quotes Mimicking Quotes Pretending Quotes Rock Quotes Sing Quotes Singers Quotes If you ain’t thinkin’ about man and God and law, then you ain’t thinkin’ about nothin’. With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.
Lynn Jurich For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don’t like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they’ve built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don’t want to hear that anything’s wrong with them. – Lynn Jurich
Rigoberta Menchu It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence. – Rigoberta Menchu
Grace Paley What I’m interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make what he wants of it. – Grace Paley
T C Boyle I’m just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we’ve done in trying to correct it. – T C Boyle
Mary Gaitskill When I was writing ‘Bad Behavior,’ I was very, very quiet. I would just sit there and listen to people. And if I was out in public, I was usually quiet, and people tended to assume I was stupid because I was a young, pretty girl who’s quiet. – Mary Gaitskill
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