#ge

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting. ↗

— Joan Didion

#back #even #every #feel #get

I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you're going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes to you quickly, and the uke facilitates that. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#anything #been #before #comes #enjoyment

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#alternative #custodian #foolish #goals #good

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#action #actor #being #care #could

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

I have dangerous bones in my body. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#bones #dangerous #i

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#deals #dirty #film #films #flattering

I am at heart a gentleman. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#gentleman #heart #i #i am

Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions. ↗

— Steve Backley

#change

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#i #never #one thing #pigeonholed #the one thing