#arte

I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time. ↗

— Jim Varney

#audience #big #big time #comedy #die

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#adopting #died #grandfather #great #hands

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#day #even now #five #grandmother #hell

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#coming #coming home #factory #found #gloves

I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#always #another #book #bored #come

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#first #gotten #i #more #since

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#american people #carter #compassionate #competent #federal

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#i #learn #needed #school #started

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash. ↗

— Iris Dement

#bob dylan #carter #cash #dylan #family

I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#disciplined #doing #friend #had #i