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The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections. ↗

— John H. Speke

#collections #consisted #diary #geological #keeping

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#check #every #every night #habits #i

The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#basically #final #get #hand #i

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust? ↗

— Regina Spektor

#accomplish #been #distance #dust #else

Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#call #get #might #phone #phone call

You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#day #emotion #end #end of the day #everyone

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#care #hell #i #i care #just

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#could #everything #experience #focus #glasses

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#beautiful #characters #fiction #fiction writers #i

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#answers #any #call #could #hate