#son

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#confirmed #control #democratic #effort #electoral

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown. ↗

— Fanny Brice

#being #clown #does #entitled #expect

But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#back #beautifully #cares #everything #fallen

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#beautiful woman #behind #car #dirty #down

I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#i #like #need #outdoors #outside

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#alone #blessed #careers #established #famous

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#feel #inside #jailed #like #prisoner

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#avoided #because #created #different #different roles

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#league #minor #minor league #named #player

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#been #i #interested #music #since