#tar

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#crap #get #good #gradually #i

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#before #began #fiction #i #reading

I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#believe #cool #down #down to earth #earth

I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#good #good movies #hottest #i #i always

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching. ↗

— David Byrne

#got #i #people #screaming #stage

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. ↗

— David Byrne

#bands #different #lot #really #sounded

A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#asked #completely #disrespectful #feel #going

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#i #scottish #started #three

I've already started saying that I'm 30 when I'm still 29. That way, I'm already there. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#i #saying #started #still #way

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#men #must #never #power #surrendered