#pie

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#best #cast #generally #grew #original

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#await #awareness #because #been #catastrophes

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#against #allow #because #bit #commend

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#experimenting #got #happening #hippie #i

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#hand #i #into #now #ordered

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States. ↗

— Terry Southern

#attention #believe #came #first #got

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#get #i #learned #machine #morning

I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier. ↗

— Britney Spears

#doing #happier #i #i always #little

I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old. ↗

— Britney Spears

#belly #i #i think #like #old

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#capital #capital investment #education #i #i believe