#k

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. ↗

— Richard Price

#angel #book #classroom #comes #descends

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. ↗

— Richard Price

#chance #fly #how #i #i do

If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged. ↗

— Richard Price

#acknowledged #book #center #character #integrate

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day. ↗

— Richard Price

#day #enough #letters #lose #make

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes. ↗

— Charley Pride

#both #doing #even #even now #eyes

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously. ↗

— Charley Pride

#fans #i #make #performer #seriously

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. ↗

— Charley Pride

#cries #cry #everybody #father #grew

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody. ↗

— Charley Pride

#country music #enough #everybody #i #i think

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had. ↗

— Charley Pride

#blacks #ever #had #i #kind

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use. ↗

— Charley Pride

#attitude #better #could #else #how