#met

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#being #career #cent #early #earn

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read. ↗

— Janis Ian

#avid #been #book #car #even

Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one. ↗

— Scott Ian

#band #ever #gets #horrible #name

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#anywhere #awful #compromised #fame #go

I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#career #had #i #i think #methodical

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something. ↗

— Alec Issigonis

#someone #something #tells #who #why

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. ↗

— Charles Ives

#consciousness #day #daybreak #experience #explained

If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened. ↗

— Joseph Jackson

#along #did #done #ever #first

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed. ↗

— Felicity Kendal

#because #bills #could #dyed #felt

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#also #arrive #conclusions #how #i