#lease

Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#ever #experience #happened #honest #i

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. ↗

— Claire Danes

#desperately #girl #good #good girl #growing

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certain #certain age #child #delivers #earnestness

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#could #course #i #liked #me

The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.' ↗

— Terence Fisher

#eventually #first #go #god #gradual

When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#bound #cry #get #guy #i

I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#blood #geffen #greatest #greatest hits #hits

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#cruelly #few #his #i #i believe

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#being #deny #generate #hoping #lose

Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life. ↗

— Gil Hodges

#children #dodgers #filled #good #good times