#yin

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. ↗

— Amy Tan

#also #completely #did #fiction #first

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#constituency #illegal #immigration #important #labor

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#civilization #firmly #gain #good #had

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball. ↗

— Chuck Tanner

#baseball #braves #like #playing #then

The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#always #artist #characteristics #child #complete

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#here #inside #little #reveal #saying

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#always #big #collection #collector #fights

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#character #fiction #go #i #jackie

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#any #complete #complete freedom #fit #freedom

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#engage #extended #find #important #long