#age

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#books #captivated #could #enjoyed #hmm

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#any #assume #attention #book #day

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#aim #already #assuring #encourage #flattery

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen! ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#authority #harbored #i #listen #lot

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#destination #direct #does #domain #eternal

It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#deliver #happens #hearts #hungry #our

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#onstage #performer #physically #thirty #trying

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents. ↗

— Red Smith

#catch #cooking #get #i #like

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#angry #found #i #kid #teenager

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it. ↗

— Bill Skarsgard

#acting #always #because #earned #hadn