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I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone. ↗

— George Strait

#anything #check #day #different #early

I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring. ↗

— George Strait

#as far as #comes #date #event #far

As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work. ↗

— Peter Straub

#excitement #felt #first #going #i

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico. ↗

— Peter Straub

#dart #during #emerged #ether #flight

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#bring #called #cannot #forth #i

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#becoming #ending #endless #had #melody

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#beginning #brings #comes #discernible #eating

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#go #grieving #had #her #i

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#completely #portrait #process #progression #random

I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me. ↗

— Picabo Street

#ceremonies #chooses #during #everyone #flag