#here

You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#facts #good #hard #hard life #i

That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#five #racing #strategy #top #wants

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#director #film #i #i think #medium

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#conscious #everywhere #jew #like #points

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#child #frank #less #life #losing

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#been #could #did #had #how

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing. ↗

— Zac Efron

#around #artists #been #better #day

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#each #every #every time #fact #fighting

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#change #cheesy #end #even #go

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#deconstruct #depression #given #largely #therefore