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I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#boring #challenging #characters #creative #creative person

It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#ed #hunter #matter #style #very

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#chicago #current #i #inspiration #liked

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#dies #father #future #parent #past

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#business #came #compared #could #different

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#advised #all things #confident #integrity #judges

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#art #course #dabble #different #doing

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago. ↗

— David Baltimore

#answer #contexts #different #does #evident

During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#depth #different #during #had #long

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#alive #children #done #figure #get