#san

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7. ↗

— Barbara Cook

#family #first #first time #got #i

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#passed #sang #she #songs #until

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. ↗

— Robert Welch

#country #insane #letting #patients #place

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#against #ancient #another #architecture #bangs

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#always #film #film world #flew #found

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#associate #being #career #gun #i

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#back #college #could #doing #enthusiasm

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#death #funeral #i #insanity #level

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#character #i #irritates #makes #mind

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are. ↗

— John Cornyn

#around #border #came #coming #countries