#ear

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#close #craft #criminal #criminal justice #criminal justice system

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#chops #everything #faster #get #going

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam. ↗

— Tre Cool

#cut #jam #lower #pearl #pearl jam

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#attorney #dad #district #district attorney #new

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#body #develop #done #effortless #goes

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#afterwards #attack #exactly #glasgow #great

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#am #far #i #i am #i think

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#fear #greed #kind #like #love

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#begin #ceased #clear #condemned #either

You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#anybody #else #i #longer #main