#real

I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#always #anything #before #degree #dream

I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#believed #bit #clown #did #different

We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#america #angeles #been #chicago #everywhere

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe. ↗

— Jil Sander

#around #design #globe #hope #i

I really love peace and quiet. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#love #peace #peace and quiet #quiet #really

I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid. ↗

— Dion Sanders

#fish #fishing #i #i can #kid

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#ground #important #important thing #me #most

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#california #death #going #island #less

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#filmmaking #great #hendrix #inspiration #jimi

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratic system #form #government #illusion #live