#ant

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this. ↗

— Mo Yan

#become #down #famous #had #heard

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law? ↗

— Jerry Yang

#always #curious #electrical #engineer #got

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#book #books #career #child #children

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.' ↗

— Al Yankovic

#bathroom #consciously #fantasies #going #had

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#call #culture #gotten #hip #i

It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#also #becomes #best #bit #done

Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'' ↗

— Al Yankovic

#actually #being #event #find #had

Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#me #out #people #some #some people

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#hate #i #i do #make #meant

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic. ↗

— Yanni

#being #dread #emotion #get #i