#ives

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#america #i #island #lives #looks

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#built-in #first #i #i see #neutral

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#about #brilliant #build #draw #gift

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives. ↗

— William Glasser

#always #better #choice #choices #control

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#children #endure #ignorance #stems #talent

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#home #lives #place #questioned #safe

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#fresher #fruit #gives #more #running

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#his #leaders #more #patrol #respond

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#crop #current #drives #haven #honest

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#character #conceives #culture #growing #having