#thing

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things. ↗

— Gerald Durrell

#more #preservation #should #side #things

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing. ↗

— David Duval

#fragile #precious #precious thing #such #thing

I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying. ↗

— Ingvar Kamprad

#dying #i #lots #things #time

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#advance #because #catch #figure #finish

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#compete #female #girl #good #good thing

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me. ↗

— Abby Elliott

#different #different things #fun #fun stuff #go

Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something. ↗

— David James Elliott

#beautiful people #believe #hairdos #interested #lead

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

#assume #contact #course #gives #happen

I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#wordsmithing #writing #beauty

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#automatically #collected #everything #hitman #i