#ps

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one. ↗

— Crystal Gayle

#first #get #good #groups #had

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences. ↗

— Chris Evans

#any #been #downs #enough #experience

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#both #characters #create #depth #hard

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#conflict #even #novels #relationships #suspense

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#day-to-day #day-to-day life #describing #draw #experiences

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#down #eventually #far #got #i

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon? ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#alas #beautiful #chiefly #deed #emotions

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up. ↗

— Jack Dee

#ago #autobiography #back #book #called

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent. ↗

— Mos Def

#decent #deserve #even #halfway #live

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. ↗

— James Joyce

#cheese #corpse #gone #meat #milk