#usual

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#childhood #drag #eccentric #freaks #girl

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city. ↗

— Harold Washington

#any #business #city #part #usual

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. ↗

— Tom Waits

#bat #beginnings #form #hand #i

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#bible #bring #few #give #i

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is. ↗

— Murray Walker

#box #commentary #hammer #heart #here

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does. ↗

— Murray Walker

#does #grand #grand prix #happens #prix

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#extremely #fought #over #perceive #resources

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#attention #began #book #father #i

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

#action movies #day #every #every day #films

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#find #i #ideas #organized #places