#her

As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky. ↗

— Liu Yang

#blue sky #female #garden #heart #motherland

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

#background #chinese #civilization #continue #dedicate

I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#been #coming #everyday #everyday life #i

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#attention #been #craves #i #kind

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#book #books #career #child #children

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#could #find #get #hard #i

It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#articulate #come #enough #go #go for it

Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'' ↗

— Al Yankovic

#actually #being #event #find #had

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#gotta #know #material #merit #own

What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat? ↗

— Al Yankovic

#austin #base #entire #good #had