#then

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#comes #demo #excited #important #important ingredient

We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#club #created #day #exist #exists

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#another #coming #did #doubt #each

I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#band #comes #demo #everything #hear

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps. ↗

— Edwin Land

#anything #conflicts #distractions #doing #dream

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband. ↗

— Ali Landry

#big event #class #event #found #going

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#country #dallas #dangerous #detroit #dressed

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically. ↗

— Ali Larter

#day #down #end #end of the day #fail

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors. ↗

— James Laughlin

#because #clear #course #go #grown

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head. ↗

— Cyndi Lauper

#bad #different #else #everybody #everybody else