#tells

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#fiction #how #i #itself #judgmental

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. ↗

— Malcolm X

#i #justice #matter #tells #truth

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about. ↗

— John Legend

#because #bunch #come #first #hook

I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#any #athlete #being #being prepared #coach

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#adolescent #infection #lot #more #rate

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#going #i #me #myself #nobody

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me. ↗

— Courtney Love

#i #least #me #survivor #tells

Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it. ↗

— Chris Martin

#anything #joke #tells #us #where

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #attentive #back #best #does

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lie #may #sometimes #tell #tells