#try

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor. ↗

— Ike Turner

#album #blues #cut #different #flavor

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #apartheid #beings #children #classification

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ↗

— Mark Twain

#country #either #freedom #freedom of speech #god

I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#actress #back #because #deep #did

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them. ↗

— Conway Twitty

#country #country music #having #hits #into

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#again #characters #consciously #end #ever

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#deeply #delve #get #i #into

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs. ↗

— Tom Udall

#atomic bombs #bombs #colorado #encouraging #federal

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#being #connection #constant #continuity #countries

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. ↗

— John Updike

#few #infancy #paltry #secrets #shame