#arte

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place. ↗

— Luis Figo

#day #every #every day #fight #football

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#against #before #bush #bush administration #come

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#i #instrument #probably #songs #three-quarters

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#better person #bringing #coming #feelings #having

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#almost #am #ask #become #been

I started at the top and worked my way down. ↗

— Orson Welles

#i #started #top #way #worked

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine. ↗

— James Dickey

#crazy #creative #indispensable #intelligent #magazine

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#except #first #i #just #makes

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#cigarettes #dark #every #films #i

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. ↗

— Walt Disney

#hope #i #lose #mouse #one thing