#ay

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#anything #beatles #entertain #even #great

If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#because #betray #fans #going #had

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#gonna #i #many #moved #musicals

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#find #house #i #johnson #like

People have the right to say what they want to. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#right #say #want

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. ↗

— Herman Melville

#love #march #may #mind #provinces

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#condemn #confinement #creatures #deserve #fellow

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#dad #day #doctor #her #hours

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#best #blessed #cool #exhausting #guys

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#de niro #hero #horror #i #intensity