#peak

I'm terrified by speaking in front of people! ↗

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#attention #been #between #couch #few

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#book #certain #challenge #chosen #criticize

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home. ↗

— James McBride

#changes #different #go #got #harmony

Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they'll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they'll run for the door. They know better. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#autism #better #corner #doctors #door

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#character #dead #every #give #inexperienced

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice. ↗

— James Merrill

#fresh #i #language #left #me

I can speak Esperanto like a native. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#i #i can #like #native #speak

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world. ↗