#tart

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#first #history #lie #real #real history

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? ↗

— Peter Brook

#directing #earth #finding #icon #jesus

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day! ↗

— Michael Owen Bruce

#buy #day #drink #had #i

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#duke #duke ellington #ellington #got #i

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#engineer #got #high #high school #i

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#am #comes #creating #creators #desperately

I never get recognized for 'Mean Girls.' I can be walking around with Daniel Franzese, who's in the movie and a friend of mine, and people will come up to him and start freaking out and have no idea who I am. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#around #come #daniel #friend #get

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#back #because #came #give #give me

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded? ↗

— George Grosz

#first #first world #first world war #hated #i

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first. ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#challenge #life-lessons #motivation #rejection #business