#throw

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#discovery #family #had #i #idea

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#apart #away #diary #i #keep

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#giving up #going #i #i can #keep

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away. ↗

— Amy Tan

#had #i #novel #second #seven

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#beginning #character #comedies #did #every

I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting. ↗

— Tiffani Amber Thiessen

#around #being #career #challenged #i

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#either #holiday #looked #may #prolonged

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack. ↗

— Dave Freudenthal

#money #officials #public #public officials #sack

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#business #chosen #country #even #fight

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#character #completely #conditions #customary #defined