#ant

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do. ↗

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway. ↗

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#cruise #fraught #heroic #i #just

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. ↗

— Peter Straub

#eventually #feel #fiction #fiction writers #forms

Family businesses that have been around for generations are suddenly closing their doors, and while I'm not comparing my situation or my family's situations to theirs, the fact that my father's business, which has been around for 30 years, might not be around, it gives me a perspective that makes me want to fight even harder for a lot of people. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#been #business #businesses #closing #comparing

I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#bank #could #drove #father #funeral

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#fortune #going #i #important #lose

I don't want to live on past records. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#live #past #records #want

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#blues #i #i am #ignorant #like

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music. ↗