#akin

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#learning #like #love #mail #making

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#book #chattering #fiction #i #i think

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#hate #i #keep #last #making

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out. ↗

— David Plouffe

#ceased #how #i #making #out

It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right. ↗

— David Plouffe

#does #effective #effectively #fairness #going

You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#exactly #exaggerating #face #front #guy

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#christians #cows #dairy #fun #high

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#because #good #i #i am #i write

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#comedy #doing #expect #like #records

There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#anyway #atlanta #cast #dinner #experience