#accidental

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#also #because #big #dignity #erased

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#avoid #avoided #entire #entire lives #hear

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#acting #back #background #big #characters

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#available #awareness #bird #fact #first

Um, accidents happen. Especially if there's a co-star that you're not that fond of - you might 'accidentally' deck him. But no, I'm a professional. I'm just saying that can happen. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#accidents #deck #especially #fond #happen

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all. ↗

— Lara St. John

#all things #being #bucket #during #hit

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes. ↗

— Ben E. King

#career #cheating #feel #i #i feel

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals. ↗

— Stephen King

#almost #beginning #career #little #more

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#came #childish #day #deep #did

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister. ↗

— Adam Rapp

#first-sentence #murder #death