#hen

I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks. ↗

— Aynsley Dunbar

#ball #bucks #come #down #gig

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#better #children #communities #demonstrate #drop

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#bad #bad day #day #having #home

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#deeds #form #great #life #lived

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #both #failure #fatal #good

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#because #being #being strong #brave #doing

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#feel #i #i think #like #probably

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#being #big #black #children #clips

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#come #i #into #like #people

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#collection #first #imprint #new #poems