#ill

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself. ↗

— Ice T

#different ways #emcee #good #limit #lot

I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. ↗

— Ice T

#black #born #families #grew #house

I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show. ↗

— Ice T

#hammer #i #just #like #million

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chilly #conjure #could #feelings #had

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.' ↗

— Amy Tan

#critic #get #good #gosh #i

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer. ↗

— Amy Tan

#draw #hours #i #i do #just

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

#around #because #bills #electricity #had

People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

#bad #certain #ever #fame #get

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

#kill #mess #up #wants #you

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#been #begging #brother #father #four