#kin

I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado. ↗

— Mojo Nixon

#bummed #college #colorado #corps #domestic

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work. ↗

— Mojo Nixon

#bar #becomes #been #business #every

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#job #kind #lonely #major #man

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt. ↗

— James Northcote

#fear #half #making #people #succeed

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing. ↗

— Edward Norton

#about #achieve #actor #audience #character

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. ↗

— Edward Norton

#acting #actor #character #coming #getting

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful. ↗

— Edward Norton

#eating #instead #meaningful #networking #social

I just like working with smart people. ↗

— Edward Norton

#just #like #people #smart #smart people

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#ahead #attack #big #deals #enemy

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#being #context #different #far #general