#ss

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#cheap #deals #delighted #did #frustrating

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#being #body #cheque #class #doing

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#chose #dying #end #going #gym

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some. ↗

— Adam Pascal

#had #i #i wish #ignorance #ignorance is bliss

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#close #decade #enacted #fact #federal

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#come #compassion #deep #feeling #here

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#become #child #i #inspires #may

After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there. ↗

— George Pataki

#after #around #assistance #friends #generous

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director. ↗

— Jason Patric

#advance #director #earned #haven #i

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#living #loop #nature #oblivious #out