#al

The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#big #bigger #brian #dave #finally

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#attention #attract #attracts #bills #business

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better. ↗

— Craig Johnston

#car #day #did #fact #five

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#ago #memory #recall #test #today

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#canadian #cold #customary #did #dying

Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#american-indians #humor #tolstoy #family

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#am #ask #aware #ballots #confirm

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#away #become #fall #flesh #gone

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#i #idea #relationship #someone #their

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#because #flaws #happy #i #i can