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Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.


Daryl Hall
Tags: Good You Me
Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear,' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky.
Matthew Rhys
Tags: Amazing Me Like
Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.
Leigh Steinberg
Tags: Know Some Now
The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?
Kelsea Ballerini
Tags: Good Music You
I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
Laura Vandervoort
Tags: Me About Know
At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
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People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?
Gunter Grass
Tags: Time Change You
It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
Gary Kemp
I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.
Sarah Dessen
Tags: Good Me Like
George Jones is country soul. Once this kind of music sits in you and you take it all, it reaches down into your soul. George Jones to me was one of the most soulful singers of any genre. That drew me to his music. He knew how to present a song without really thinking about it.
Patty Loveless
Tags: Music You Me
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
John Thorn
Tags: Just Had Never
At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.
Kurt Masur
Tags: Music Age You
Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.
Virgil Thomson
Tags: Music You About
Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
Gary Kemp
Tags: Good Me Because
Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.
Trent Reznor
Tags: You About Because
It's not hard to motivate myself because once you get a taste for winning races, you simply don't want to do anything else. You get a buzz from it. You want it every day. Only someone who has experienced winning can understand how good it feels.
Tony McCoy
Tags: Good You Who
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My whole life has been decided by fate. I've never planned anything that's happened to me.


Sharon Tate
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It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.
Larry David
Tags: Good Always Life
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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.


Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Tags: Good You People
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
Tao Lin