#because

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. ↗

— Grace Paley

#become #else #need #nothing #writer

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#because #before #both #dated #deal

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies. ↗

— Frank Black

#against #anything #because #been #even

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined. ↗

— Frank Black

#because #been #beyond #command #defined

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money. ↗

— Bjork

#designers #else #i #i do #make

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#am #because #default #does #i

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#believe #god #goose #i #i do

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#eat #glad #hate #i #just

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#awaken #because #belief #bring #could

Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch! ↗

— Paul Darrow

#also #back #because #character #day