#hem

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#artist #back #best #figured #get

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#completely #fan #feel #i #me

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists. ↗

— Mos Def

#just #leaders #lot #people #propagandists

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. ↗

— Len Deighton

#asked #asking #book #come #first

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#device #into #mathematician #theorems #turning

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#being #credit #gives #lot #people

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. ↗

— Jonathan Demme

#films #hitchcock #i #i think #making

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist. ↗

— Linda Blair

#asking #because #been #exorcist #i

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. ↗

— Robert Blair

#begin #being #certain #deformity #end

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home. ↗

— Mary Kay Blakely

#deliver #every #every time #expand #god