#stopped

The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive. ↗

— Gary Numan

#aggressive #became #came #early #ever

I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#books #eight #get #had #i

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. ↗

— David Hockney

#another #drawing #haven #i #just

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped. ↗

— Paul Rodriguez

#get #harming #never #people #protect

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring. ↗

— Philip Roth

#boring #college #direction #draft #everybody

People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#game #get #getting #lot #love

We want to see all demonstrations stopped. ↗

— Hun Sen

#see #stopped #want

There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing. ↗

— Martha Smith

#ban #bravo #came #complete #countries

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons. ↗

— Patti Smith

#around #books #children #five #four

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck. ↗

— Susan Smith

#bad #car #did #down #end