#si

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. ↗

— James Dean

#dedication #duty #express #full #grasp

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#fame #great #hall #i #kind

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#fever #found #gentleman #had #house

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#birthday #college #days #down #elvis

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#back #damned #eighty #entire #ever

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#certainly #detective #detective stories #featured #forensic

A girl never forgets two things: the day she started her period for the first time, and the day she met the love of her life. ↗

— Janice Thompson

#womanhood #design

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#begin #eight #i #months #novel

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing. ↗

— Crystal Gayle

#many #sing #singers #try #want

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. ↗

— Martha Beck

#certain #constantly #eclectic #exactly #feel