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Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.


Matthew Perry


#age #away #early #early age #enough

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.


Oscar Peterson


#listen #people #say #something #then

I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.


Madeleine Peyroux


#artists #bunch #discovered #early #especially

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.


Liz Phair


#bedroom #developed #even #i #i write

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.


Joseph Pulitzer


#future generations #generations #hands #journalists #mould

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.


Anna Quindlen


#goes #gospel #i #i write #inform

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.


Robert Quine


#develop #i #listening #miles #miles davis

I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.


Christie Rampone


#down #i #know #listen #realistic

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?


Roman Payne


#books #escape #flame #heroic #heroism

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.


Terence Rattigan


#dares #few #his #lose #may






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