#arte

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake. ↗

— Bjork

#i #like #me #more #music

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #blackness #committed #describing

Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days. ↗

— Larry David

#days #doing #i #some #standup

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. ↗

— Ray Davies

#groups #i #i think #more #songwriting

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will. ↗

— Brad Bird

#assume #because #brain #direction #every

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ↗

— Mark Twain

#ahead #getting #getting started #secret #started

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life. ↗

— Bette Davis

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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#bartender #book #critic #drunk #good

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started. ↗

— Marvin Davis

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