#pie

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #been #direct #doing #even

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#failed #first #freeze #i #i always

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#cast #come #even #face #first

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#case #element #every #fact #i

When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life. ↗

— Artie Lange

#happiest #i #life #my life #out

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#bits #children #discovered #forgot #i

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#ate #attack #away #chicken #choice

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#apiece #beings #emotions #fixed #human

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#bandit #between #conventional #deadly #georgia

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#compete #funny #group #leadership #people