#real

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#ball player #couple #football #football player #i

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs! ↗

— Tom Wopat

#doing #hits #musicals #old #realize

I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#listen #lot #me #music #radio

In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#completely #dork #good #i #i do

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#meditation #mind #reality #remorse #thinking

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay. ↗

— Chely Wright

#achieve #age #being #compound #could

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter. ↗

— Steven Wright

#i #last #last night #letter #me

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window. ↗

— Steven Wright

#fast #get #going #harmonica #i

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there. ↗

— Will Wright

#between #community #cool #economy #good

It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses. ↗

— Jennifer Wyatt

#get #likeable #masses #really #superstars