#insisted

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me. ↗

— Jon Secada

#contract #english #even #got #i

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#artist #both #cannot #copy #ends

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#comic #comic strip #drawings #enjoy #imagine

We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books. ↗

— Robert Asprin

#both #full #going #i #insisted

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#basis #different #discrimination #ideologies #insisted

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#big studios #contract #days #gave #groomed

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#attention #began #book #father #i