#straight

You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#facts #good #hard #hard life #i

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#down #line #straight #straight line #up

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#great #many #nation #neglected #ordinary

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#ethical #i #kind-hearted #me #resources

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#fact #gimmick #in fact #just #me

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#blatant #error #misconception #really #see

Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight. ↗

— Burt Ward

#characters #did #funny #our #played

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience. ↗

— Burt Ward

#best #business #children #comedy #funny

This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell. ↗

— Maxine Waters

#concerned #far #frightened #game #go

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good. ↗

— Ron Wood

#behind #being #did #die #dope