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James Brown is the reason I play guitar. ↗


— Kevin Eubanks


#guitar #i #james #james brown #play

There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely. ↗


— David Bowie


#absolutely #again #average #called #disco

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you. ↗


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#character #come #different #even #fictional

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history. ↗


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#approach #characters #endow #female #female characters

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with. ↗


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#because #been #brown #certain #certain way

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that. ↗


— Barbara Boxer


#ask #chips #conviction #deep #deep conviction

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes. ↗


— Barbara Boxer


#complicated #deciding #enough #having #homes

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.' ↗


— Barbara Boxer


#because #begged #child #condition #constituency

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. ↗


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#courses #did #english #english literature #figured

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life. ↗


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#characters #feel #hopefully #i #life






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