#pro

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#called #completely #dancer #her #i

When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#back #energy #food #fun #get

If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It will never be as good as you want it to be, so forget about perfection. Just be satisfied that you've done the best work you can do at this stage in your life as an author. Then roll the rocket onto the launch pad and fire it off. After that, write another story. Always keep going. Move fast. Stay one step ahead of the forces of distraction and self-doubt. Love your characters enough to give them a good home. Love your readers enough to give them a place of refuge from life's tragedies, big and small. And love the world you live in enough to make it the world of your dreams. ↗

— James Hampton

#creative-process #writing-process #dreams

Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#border #cargo #closer #containers #customs

Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film. ↗

— Phil Collins

#by the time #could #doing #each #film

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#away #day #done #every #every day

However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#changed #coverage #halls #however #i

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#character #comfortable #everything #feels #hit

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#life #limit #pleasures #protect

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. ↗

— Larry Wall

#compromise #just #necessary #necessity