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It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in her path (beer cans, branches). This compulsion, applied to other fields, manifested itself as "intelligence." Every unknown word sent her to a dictionary--in search of something like "completion"--and every book led to another book, a process that, of course, could never be completed. This route through early life gave her no small portion of joy, and, indeed, it seemed at first that her desires and her capacities were basically aligned. She wanted to read things--could not resist wanting to read things--and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive. On the other hand, that she should receive any praise for such reflexive habits baffled the girl, for she knew herself to be fantastically stupid about many things. Wasn't it possible that what others mistook for intelligence was in fact only a sort of mutation of the will? ↗


— Zadie Smith


#compulsion #desires #finishing #intelligence #joy

Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children. ↗


— Dave Grohl


#children #had #i #start #sweating

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. ↗


— Steve Lacy


#i #jazz #music #new #new orleans

When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing. ↗


— Steve Lacy


#esoteric #first #i #just #knew

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma. ↗


— Christine Lahti


#first #i #out #real #starting

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write. ↗


— Amy Winehouse


#could #i #music #myself #really

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting. ↗


— Amy Winehouse


#i #keep #nervous #starting #stopping

I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California. ↗


— Meg Whitman


#business #california #change #change the world #country

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career. ↗


— Al Yankovic


#book #books #career #child #children

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance. ↗


— Montel Williams


#be careful #because #careful #comparing #european






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