#try

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#down #essentially #four #got #his

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#music #real #real world #related #see

Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#am #anything #best #between #day

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#bad #happened #life #little #make

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#hardest #i #i always #like #obviously

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#banking #behaves #behavior #capitalism #corners

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#enjoy #i #most #mystery #solve

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#few #first #first thing #old #phone

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#best #bringing #country #first #football

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#allegiance #american #country #either #else