#thin

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#always #anything #certainly #door #guitar

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#lot #music #often #out #people

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#affected #any #applause #beautiful #beautiful person

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#character #endears #especially #films #get-go

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#experiencing #feel #going #i #i feel

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#logic #mathematics #nothing #specialised #structures

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#again #enough #figured #good #her

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#enough #i #mystery #people #problem

I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#available #been #buying #did #good

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#character #description #down #even #going