#gets

If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#hunt #i #like #pull #somebody

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about. ↗

— Pink

#artists #been #decided #embarrassed #even

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#arts #british #especially #force #gets

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

#days #gets #how #i #know

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#good #here #losing #politics #rule

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#bad #best #communism #eventually #everybody

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#feeling #gets #gift #give #good

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#begins #dance #departs #far #gets

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. ↗

— Colin Powell

#close #down #ego #get #gets

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#book #cream #gets #gland #instead