#hal

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chords #concert #first #first time #get

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#acceptance #challenge #character #child #choice

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#always #artist #challenge #different #different way

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#command #consider #extends #grows #i

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#business #businesses #created #employers #generating

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#bite #challenge #different #expecting #people

Always ↗

— Severus Snape

#j-k-rowling #the-deathly-hallows #death

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#half #inexorably #life #nothing #real

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#feel #half #him #know #much

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#ever #half #lie #lies #truth