#sol

Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#child #creatively #done #everything #forgotten

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#achieve #already #enough #everything #find

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

#boat #drafted #fact #go #government

You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music. ↗

— Obie Trice

#black #bring #career #cent #detroit

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#actor #although #always #any #anything

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#belonged #benefit #capital #declaring #different

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like. ↗

— Shania Twain

#i #know #like #look #marilyn

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#consolation #dismal #ears #even #hope

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#absolutely #always #anything #asked #bands

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#closed #died #director #find #get