life quotes/love quotes/motivational quotes
life quotes/love quotes/motivational quotes
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M. C. Escher
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
M. C. Escher
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
M. C. Escher
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
M. C. Escher
My work is a game, a very serious game.
M. C. Escher
I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
M. C. Gainey
I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.
M. C. Gainey
All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
M. C. Gainey
If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
M. C. Gainey
With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
M. C. Gainey
You know what, it's a time honored tradition in movies in America that if you kill enough people in your 30s and 40s and 50s that by the time you get into your 60s you become loveable.
M. C. Gainey
You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'
M. C. Gainey
'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
M. C. Gainey
Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
M. Emmet Walsh
I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.
M. Emmet Walsh
But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.
M. Emmet Walsh
No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
M. Emmet Walsh
But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.
M. Emmet Walsh
I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.
M. Emmet Walsh
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
M. Esther Harding
They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
M. F. Husain
I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.
M. F. Husain
I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
M. F. Husain
All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.
M. F. Husain
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
M. F. Husain
I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
M. F. Husain
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
M. F. Husain
I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
M. F. Husain
I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.
M. F. Husain
India is my motherland.
M. F. Husain
Wherever I find love I will accept it.
M. F. Husain
Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
M. F. Husain
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
M. F. Husain
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
M. F. K. Fisher
It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.
M. F. K. Fisher
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
M. F. K. Fisher
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
M. F. K. Fisher
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. Fisher
I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
M. F. K. Fisher
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
M. F. K. Fisher
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
M. H. Abrams
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams
Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
M. H. Abrams
Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
M. H. Abrams
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
M. H. Abrams
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
M. H. Abrams
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
M. H. Abrams
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
M. H. Abrams
The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
M. H. Abrams
I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
M. H. Abrams
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
M. H. Abrams
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
M. H. Abrams
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
M. H. Abrams
When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
M. H. Abrams
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
M. H. Abrams
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
M. H. Abrams
The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
M. H. Abrams
Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
M. J. Hyland
Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
M. J. Hyland
As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
M. J. Hyland
I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
M. J. Hyland
I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
M. J. Hyland
I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
M. J. Hyland
Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!
M. J. Hyland
From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
M. J. Hyland
I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.
M. J. Hyland
I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.
M. J. Hyland
I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.
M. J. Hyland
I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.
M. J. Hyland
Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.
M. J. Hyland
If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
M. J. Rose
I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.
M. J. Rose
It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.
M. J. Rose
Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
M. J. Rose
One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.
M. J. Rose
A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
M. J. Rose
Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
M. J. Rose
When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
M. J. Rose
Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.
M. J. Rose
Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.
M. J. Rose
In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.
M. J. Rose
A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
M. J. Rose
One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
M. J. Rose
I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
M. J. Rose
Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
M. J. Rose
PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.
M. J. Rose
I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
M. J. Rose
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
M. J. Rose
I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
M. J. Rose
When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.
M. J. Rose
Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
M. J. Rose
I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book.
M. J. Rose
I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
M. J. Rose
With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
M. J. Rose
I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.
M. J. Rose
All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
M. J. Rose
I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
M. J. Rose
You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
M. J. Rose
We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
M. J. Rose
I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
M. J. Rose
I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.
M. J. Rose
There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
M. J. Rose
Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
M. J. Rose
Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
M. J. Rose
It's so easy to look foolish online.
M. J. Rose
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
M. J. Rose
I just want to sit in my room and write books.
M. J. Rose
When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
M. J. Rose
I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.
M. J. Rose
I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
M. J. Rose
Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
M. J. Rose
It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
M. J. Rose
I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.
M. J. Rose
You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.
M. J. Rose
Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
M. J. Rose
I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.
M. J. Rose
Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
M. J. Rose
I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.
M. J. Rose
I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
M. J. Rose
MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
M. J. Rose
A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
M. J. Rose
Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.
M. J. Rose
As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
M. J. Rose
There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
M. J. Rose
Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
M. J. Rose
Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
M. J. Rose
Estimates are that in 2012, more than 32 million books were available - the explosion, thanks to the ease of self-publishing; 2013 could see even more titles grace our virtual bookstores! That means we are going to be awash in covers and titles, plot descriptions and characters.
M. J. Rose
Don't send out a newsletter just to send out a newsletter. One newsletter a year that is really interesting is more beneficial than 12 that are boring. If you write two or three boring newsletters in a row, your readers will start to think you write boring books.
M. J. Rose
Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.
M. J. Rose
In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
M. J. Rose
'Celluloid' is set in the 1930s. During the decade, the folk-classical genre seems to have been in vogue. It didn't take much effort to compose because my guru Neyyattinkara Mohanachandran and his guru, M. M. Dandapani Desikar, used to sing this genre.
M. Jayachandran
It's very important that your work reaches people and it is marketed professionally and guarded well against piracy. For all of those reasons, I take into account the credibility of the team I work with.
M. Jayachandran
Singing these days has become a mechanical exercise for many, and mostly this is because song situations that require effort from the heart are rare to come by.
M. Jayachandran
Educational institutions, which are the grooming grounds for creating responsible citizens have to be kept tobacco and smoke-free.
M. Jayachandran
In the past 20 years of musical journey, what I realized is that one need to respect their teachers, elders and parents and their blessings are more than enough for one to reach success. I believe it as my success mantra.
M. Jayachandran
'Kilikal Parannatho' sung by Rajesh Krishnan, who sung 'Julie I Love You' in 'Chattakari,' is a personal favourite of mine.
M. Jayachandran
Vijayalakshmi is one artiste whom I admire. There is something divine about her singing.
M. Jayachandran
Ramesh Vinayakam is a maestro music composer and a dear friend, too.
M. Jayachandran
The society has an obligation to protect younger generation and prevent them from the use of tobacco products.
M. Jayachandran
For me, music is God and each song I make is an offering at the temple of music.
M. Jayachandran
If a singer wants to improvise while recording a song, he has to get the permission of the composer.
M. Jayachandran
My work is music. That's why I could set to tune a song such as 'Kathirunnu Kathirunnu.'
M. Jayachandran
What really surprised me was that we had released the song 'Kondoram'... without any video and it still garnered so many views. The song had only lyrics and no visuals.
M. Jayachandran
I am familiar with the Odiyan legend, as my mother used to tell me that her grandmother would narrate the Odiyan tales while she grew up in Palakkad.
M. Jayachandran
Acting is not at all my forte.
M. Jayachandran
Music is my passion and career.
M. Jayachandran
Every song has a mood, a situation and a different kind of score.
M. Jayachandran
Usually all lullabies are featured on a mother and child. But in 'Kalimannu,' it is picturised on a mother-to-be who is singing to her unborn child. I found the entire concept so beautiful.
M. Jayachandran
I always try to look for variety in my work.
M. Jayachandran
Actors are given songs that suit their voice and skill. At the same time, those songs which have a complicated tune and need expertise to perform should be given to trained singers.
M. Jayachandran
It's alright to make an actor sing if the director already has an ideal sequence in his film. But I am totally against bringing in actors to sing in every film without any context and just for marketing purposes.
M. Jayachandran
In any art, unpredictability is the delightful factor.
M. Jayachandran
Usually people like experimental music which is usually not the case in Carnatic classical concerts.
M. Jayachandran
Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as lyrics. I believe such attempts create mundane songs, and they hardly stand the test of time.
M. Jayachandran
Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.
M. Jayachandran
I don't know anything about politics or lobbying in the film world.
M. Jayachandran
I pick voices suitable for a particular song rendition and for that, it doesn't matter where they hail from.
M. Jayachandran
I think the reason composers aren't valued is because many act as servants rather than music directors. Instead of taking a stand based on their convictions, they sway to the opinions of others.
M. Jayachandran
But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out.
M. Jayachandran
Any composer needs opportunities, but now these chances are based on personal relationships, and not on talent alone. For that, you must keep calling directors and keep them happy. So, PR plays a major part now, more than talent or success.
M. Jayachandran
The songs of Raghavan Master are timeless. There are a lot of things that a student of music has to learn from them. He expressed his thoughts not through words, but music.
M. Jayachandran
The increased use of cigarettes and tobacco products among youth is worrying. Starting with cigarettes and tobacco, youngsters are soon lured into use of drugs.
M. Jayachandran
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
M. John Harrison
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.
M. John Harrison
I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
M. John Harrison
A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
M. John Harrison
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
M. John Harrison
I've just always been fascinated by what our belief can do, and what happens when we misuse that.
M. K. Hobson
I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.
M. K. Hobson
I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
M. K. Hobson
I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.
M. K. Hobson
When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
M. Night Shyamalan
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
M. Night Shyamalan
See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?
M. Night Shyamalan
Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
M. Night Shyamalan
There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
M. Night Shyamalan
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
M. Night Shyamalan
I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
M. Night Shyamalan
If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
M. Night Shyamalan
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
M. Night Shyamalan
I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
M. Night Shyamalan
When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.
M. Night Shyamalan
I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
M. Night Shyamalan
Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.
M. Night Shyamalan
Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
M. Night Shyamalan
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
M. Night Shyamalan
I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
M. Night Shyamalan
I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.
M. Night Shyamalan
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
M. Night Shyamalan
The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
M. Night Shyamalan
I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
M. Night Shyamalan
My biggest fear in life is to be average.
M. Night Shyamalan
Are you in my dream too?
M. Night Shyamalan
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
M. Night Shyamalan
'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
M. Night Shyamalan
There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
M. Night Shyamalan
I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
M. Night Shyamalan
Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan
If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.
M. Night Shyamalan
I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
M. Night Shyamalan
I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
M. Night Shyamalan
That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.
M. Night Shyamalan
For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
M. Night Shyamalan
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
M. Night Shyamalan
'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
M. Night Shyamalan
I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
M. Night Shyamalan
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
M. Night Shyamalan
My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.
M. Night Shyamalan
The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
M. Night Shyamalan
So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.
M. Night Shyamalan
If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
M. Night Shyamalan
My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
M. Night Shyamalan
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
M. Night Shyamalan
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
M. Russell Ballard
We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.
M. Russell Ballard
Very few have the talent to make others laugh without being laughed at.
M. S. Narayana
In my career spanning over two decades, I've never felt that comedy is a department everybody can excel in because it's an art and only a few are blessed with the talent to entertain.
M. S. Narayana
Of course, all my films are high on comedy, but I ensure there's something for the audience to take back home.
M. S. Narayana
You can't just expect anyone to turn comedian because it's something that should come naturally, but not when forced on someone.
M. S. Narayana
From the very beginning I knew I had to be a comedian, and thus preferred being one.
M. S. Narayana
If 'Crazywala' is about the state of politics in our country, 'Nawab Basha' is about how money controls most of our lives.
M. S. Narayana
Most of our lives are dictated by money and when we lose or gain some, we change so much as an individual.
M. S. Narayana
It doesn't matter if I'm playing a lead role or that of a comedian; I want my audience to have entertainment worth their money.
M. S. Narayana
If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.
M. S. Swaminathan
Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home grown food.
M. S. Swaminathan
Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.
M. S. Swaminathan
There are two major challenges before Indian agriculture today: ecological and economical. The conservation of our basic agricultural assets such as land, water, and biodiversity is a major challenge. How to make agriculture sustainable is the challenge.
M. S. Swaminathan
Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.
M. S. Swaminathan
Contract farming can be promoted if it is structured on the basis of a win-win situation both for the producer and the purchaser.
M. S. Swaminathan
All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is, do the farmers of this country, who constitute nearly half of the working population, also not need to eat?
M. S. Swaminathan
Agriculture involves crop husbandry, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Your income will go up only if you look at the system, and not from one crop alone.
M. S. Swaminathan
Micronutrient deficiency in the soil results in micronutrient malnutrition in people, since crops grown on such soils tend to be deficient in the nutrients needed to fight hidden hunger.
M. S. Swaminathan
Organic farming and other earlier methods can be effective, provided they can help us improve soil health and plant health. Plant pesticides like neem and tobacco need to be promoted.
M. S. Swaminathan
I have frequently pointed out that the future belongs to nations with grains and not guns.
M. S. Swaminathan
The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally.
M. S. Swaminathan
Most pesticides lose their efficacy after a few years, because of pest resistance to pesticides. This is why companies go on changing the varieties.
M. S. Swaminathan
A life cycle approach to food security will imply attention to the nutritional needs of a human being from conception to cremation. The most vulnerable but neglected segment is the first 1,000 days in a child's life - the period from conception to the age of two, when much of the brain development takes place.
M. S. Swaminathan
You want to live in harmony with nature and with each other.
M. S. Swaminathan
You can classify farmers into two major groups. One who saves seeds for the next crop and the other who purchases seeds from the market. Most of the commercial farmers like the US farmers are people who purchase seeds.
M. S. Swaminathan
The purpose of developing a methodology for what they call genetic control over seed, is mainly to ensure that F1 hybrids are pure and that every year you have to buy the seed.
M. S. Swaminathan
Rice, wheat and other grains can help to address protein-calorie under-nutrition. But only attention to horticulture, milk and eggs can help to overcome hidden hunger caused by the deficiency of micro-nutrients like iodine, iron, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B12, etc.
M. S. Swaminathan
When politicians talk of loan waiver, they are accepting that agriculture is not economically viable. They are giving a wrong signal that farming is not economically viable. It's true. That's where the loan waiver comes in.
M. S. Swaminathan
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Bengal Famine, Parliament is likely to pass the National Food Security Bill which will be the world's largest social protection measure against hunger.
M. S. Swaminathan
One of India's major blessings is the rich store of experience and knowledge available in the rural and tribal areas.
M. S. Swaminathan
In the current scenario of climate change, predictions of extreme weather events are becoming difficult.
M. S. Swaminathan
Farmers, young and old, educated and uneducated, have easily taken to the new agronomy. It has been heart-warming to see young college graduates, retired officials, ex-armymen, illiterate peasants and small farmers queuing up to get the new seeds.
M. S. Swaminathan
It will be very foolhardy and suicidal for a country like India to forgo food security.
M. S. Swaminathan
Genetic modification is a very powerful tool. But like any powerful tool, when using it, you have to take into account the environmental impact, the food safety aspects and so on. There must be a strong regulatory mechanism.
M. S. Swaminathan
To ensure food security for all, we should be clear about the definition of the problem, the precise index of measuring impact and the road map to achieve the goal.
M. S. Swaminathan
There is an urgent need for regeneration of fisheries and fostering a sustainable fisheries programme. What I mean is, designing new fishing vessels and nets so that they do not disrupt the fish lifecycle by catching young ones and also do not destroy sea grass beds, which serve as habitats for dugongs.
M. S. Swaminathan
To sum up, agriculture has made important progress and our farmers have now shown that they are second to none in terms of improving production and productivity.
M. S. Swaminathan
I always ask the farmers, when you get up in the morning, is there some information which you are lacking which you would like to have? Invariably they talk about weather, the market price.
M. S. Swaminathan
Without the wholehearted involvement of farmers, particularly of young as well as women farmers, it will be impossible to implement a Food Entitlements Act in an era of increasing price volatility in the international market.
M. S. Swaminathan
When in 1963 we started large-scale research and testing with semi-dwarf varieties of wheat obtained from Mexico through Norman Borlaug, the new plant types attracted media attention immediately.
M. S. Swaminathan
Ultimately, multiple livelihood opportunities alone can insulate farmers in rainfed areas from the debt trap.
M. S. Swaminathan
Training of farmers in integrated pest management is exceedingly important to protect them during the use of pesticides.
M. S. Swaminathan
Famines were frequent in colonial India and some estimates indicate that 30 to 40 million died out of starvation in Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Bengal during the later half of the 19th century.
M. S. Swaminathan
Waiver of farm loans is not an ideal solution. To ensure that the situation is not repeated, the government should focus on creating a robust system to extend the necessary ingredients of farming such as water harvesting systems, seed and fertiliser supplements.
M. S. Swaminathan
Looking ahead, the bright spot in Indian agriculture is the availability of a large untapped production reservoir.
M. S. Swaminathan
The government only gives subsidies for nitrogenous fertilisers. With the result, farmers do not apply balanced fertilisers.
M. S. Swaminathan
I was chairman of the steering committee for agriculture when we set up the target of 4% growth rate. I had written that if you want to achieve 4% growth rate in agriculture, you should have 8% growth in animal husbandry and fisheries and 8% in horticulture.
M. S. Swaminathan
In Punjab wheat production it is a 'gamble of temperature' unlike other parts of the country where there is a 'gamble of rainfall'.
M. S. Swaminathan
Land tenure is key to protecting land rights. The Central and State governments should have accessible systems for registering, tracking and protecting land rights, including customary rights and common property resources.
M. S. Swaminathan
After the Green Revolution, I came up with the concept of the Evergreen Revolution. In this we will see increase in farm productivity but without ecological harm.
M. S. Swaminathan
Land is becoming a diminishing resource for agriculture, in spite of a growing understanding that the future of food security will depend upon the sustainable management of land resources as well as the conservation of prime farmland for agriculture.
M. S. Swaminathan
Rain harvesting should be made mandatory and should be made more systematic to ensure that every drop of rain is preserved.
M. S. Swaminathan
See, technology can advance yield and productivity, but only public policy can advance the income of farmers. There has to be a synergy between technology and public policy.
M. S. Swaminathan
We have to devise ways to lower the cost of production and reduce the risks involved in agriculture such as pests, pathogens, and weeds.
M. S. Swaminathan
The more powerful a technology greater care should be used to benefit fro it. India should not be left behind the world. From the past revolution of nuclear technology we saw how it could destruct and at the same time were useful for medical science.
M. S. Swaminathan
My own motivation has come from the fact that all the indicators in the world, the hunger index or whatever index you say, shows a high prevalence of malnutrition.
M. S. Swaminathan
Where there is a challenge there has to be a response.
M. S. Swaminathan
Leadership is something which other people have to recognize. You cannot demand that I am a leader.
M. S. Swaminathan
In any case, if I grow hybrid maize or hybrid pearl mallet or any hybrid, I have to sow fresh seed every year. I cannot keep the seed of the same plant. If I keep the seed of the same plant, yield will be much less and there will be a wide variation in the field, like maturity period, quality and so on.
M. S. Swaminathan
Hybrids have become an important method for improving productivity or yield in many crops including the self-pollinated crop like rice.
M. S. Swaminathan
In India, unlike in the United States and Australia, agriculture is not just a food producing enterprise but also the backbone of the livelihood security of nearly 60 per cent of the population.
M. S. Swaminathan
Aberrations in monsoon behaviour are not uncommon, having been with us throughout our agricultural history.
M. S. Swaminathan
The rain-cum-solar energy centre functioning in Chennai is a source of credible public information on rainwater harvesting and solar energy use. Such centres need to be replicated in all our cities, towns and block headquarters.
M. S. Swaminathan
The goal of my University education was to get into a medical college and equip myself to run a hospital in Kumbakonam left behind by my father, M.K. Sambasivan, who died at a young age in 1936.
M. S. Swaminathan
The Green Revolution was criticised by social activists on the ground that the high-yield technology involving the use of mineral fertilizers and chemical pesticides is environmentally harmful.
M. S. Swaminathan
The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.
M. S. Swaminathan
Green Revolution technologies are scale-neutral but not resource-neutral. Inputs are needed for output; therefore market-purchased inputs become important in providing soil and plant healthcare for higher yields.
M. S. Swaminathan
The smaller the farm, the greater is the need for marketable surplus, so that the family will have cash income to meet their needs.
M. S. Swaminathan
In spite of the dominant role played by women in both farming, they are denied credit as they lack land titles. Only a small percentage of Kisan Credit Cards goes to them.
M. S. Swaminathan
A number of non-banking finance companies have entered the rural microcredit market. Many microcredit agencies have been charging interest rates not very dissimilar to those charged by moneylenders. Borrowing then becomes more to meet pressing consumption needs, rather than for farming or small-scale enterprises.
M. S. Swaminathan
Denying a child even at birth an opportunity for the full expression of its innate genetic potential for physical and mental development is the cruellest form of inequity.
M. S. Swaminathan
The loss of land for food security has to be measured not only in quantitative terms but also in respect of land use.
M. S. Swaminathan
India's future has to be built on the foundation of social protection of the economically and socially handicapped sections.
M. S. Swaminathan
Floods will become more serious and frequent in the Indo-Gangetic plains. Drought induced food and water scarcity will become more acute. South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the small islands will be the worst victims.
M. S. Swaminathan
India unfortunately has the unenviable reputation of being the home to the largest number of undernourished children, women and men in the world.
M. S. Swaminathan
2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. We can classify our crops into those which are climate resilient and those which are climate sensitive. For example, wheat is a climate sensitive crop, while rice shows a wide range of adaptation in terms of growing conditions.
M. S. Swaminathan
Integrated coastal zone management procedures involving concurrent attention to both the landward and seaward site of the ocean and to coastal forestry and agro-forestry as well as capture and culture fisheries are urgently needed.
M. S. Swaminathan
There is talk about the need for a second Green Revolution. However, such a revolution is nowhere in sight.
M. S. Swaminathan
The National Policy for Farmers calls for a paradigm shift from measuring agricultural progress merely in terms of growth rates, to measuring it in terms of the growth in the real income of farm families.
M. S. Swaminathan
I had the privilege of knowing and working with Norman Borlaug - who has been aptly described by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee as the greatest hunger fighter of our time - for nearly 50 years.
M. S. Swaminathan
At least five cents in every acre should be reserved for the construction of ponds to store rainwater.
M. S. Swaminathan
Where two or more crops are taken normally, it is time to begin preparation for a good rabi crop by assembling the seeds, soil nutrients, and other agronomic inputs needed for timely sowing and good plant population.
M. S. Swaminathan
The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood.
M. S. Swaminathan
We have to initiate a bio-shield movement along the coastal areas by raising mangrove forests, plantations of casuarina, salicornia, laucaena, atriplex, palms, bamboo and other tree species and halophytes - all that can grow near the sea.
M. S. Swaminathan
The government should promote community nurseries of mangrove species and other appropriate tree species chosen under the coastal bio-shield and agro-forestry programmes.
M. S. Swaminathan
The construction of permanent sea walls can be taken up only in places where there is sea erosion due to heavy anthropogenic pressures. The locations for such non-living barriers should be determined on the basis of a carefully conducted erosion-vulnerability analysis.
M. S. Swaminathan
Farmers in rain-fed, dry areas such as Vidarbha and parts of Andhra Pradesh may own several hectares of land but their farm produce depends on the vagaries of the monsoon.
M. S. Swaminathan
Farmers are happy so long as their net income will not be adversely affected. In organic farming, in the first couple of years you may drop in yield until you build up the soil fertility - you need inputs for output.
M. S. Swaminathan
Wireless technology has completely revolutionized information transmission and exchange in India. If you go in the coastal areas, small-scale fishermen who go out in small boats, they now carry a cellphone, which has GPS data on wave heights, where the fish are, et cetera.
M. S. Swaminathan
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
Ultimately love is everything.
M. Scott Peck
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
M. Scott Peck
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
M. Scott Peck
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
M. Scott Peck
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
M. Scott Peck
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
M. Scott Peck
A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.
M. Scott Peck
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
M. Scott Peck
In some ways, I am grateful that I was raised in a secular home, because that meant that I didn't have any old religious baggage to carry with me. I was free to go and think what I wanted.
M. Scott Peck
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck
I do not think that everybody has to struggle. But to probably at least half of the people, it never seems to enter their minds that they might be engaged in a struggle or that there might be something to struggle with.
M. Scott Peck
Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both.
M. Scott Peck
I've gone to great lengths not to be a guru. I think the notion of guruhood is utterly pathological, and I couldn't live that way. I am just a person.
M. Scott Peck
Since the early 1960s, since what's been called the charismatic movement within the Christian church, a significant number of Christians believe that virtually every problem a human can have is of demonic origin.
M. Scott Peck
I never thought I would ever be middle-of-the-road anything, much less a middle-of-the-road Christian, but it actually ended up I'm extremely middle of the road.
M. Scott Peck
As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what we are taught.
M. Scott Peck
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
M. Scott Peck
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
M. Scott Peck
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
M. Scott Peck
We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
M. Scott Peck
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
M. Scott Peck
One thing I loved when I was growing up, you maybe saw one review from a magazine like 'Rolling Stone,' but now there are 150 reviews before an album even comes out. There are so many opinions out there, but the only one that really matters is your own.
M. Shadows
The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.
M. Shadows
I went to this vocal coach, Ron Anderson, who has worked with Axl Rose and Chris Cornell, to train my voice and learn a whole new way of singing.
M. Shadows
I was a fan of 'Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,' and I got into 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops,' which was my favorite 'Call Of Duty' game of all time.
M. Shadows
I feel like our whole discography up through 'Hail to the King' was young, fun, and exciting. It was aggressively driven. 'The Stage' was the first step in the band becoming a more mature musical entity.
M. Shadows
I was talking to my dad about the stuff he grew up listening to, and 'Operation: Mindcrime' is a record that he had always talked about around the house. He always talked about it as the 'greatest concept album of all time.' One day, I started listening to it, and it just hit me. I was like, 'These songs are all hits. They're all huge songs.'
M. Shadows
We grew up with every type of band from Primus to Mr. Bungle to Elton John to pop music to metal, and we try to throw it all in a blender. And whatever comes out of that is more Avenged Sevenfold than metal or metalcore.
M. Shadows
The idea of turning an album into a living piece of art and adding new installations is really intriguing. It expands the journey.
M. Shadows
Those who are not very good at understanding mental health issues are not going to know what other people are going through in depression. You have to kind of put yourself in somebody else's shoes.
M. Shadows
Everyone has an opinion, and everyone should be entitled to say whatever they want.
M. Shadows
All I can say to people who don't think depression is a real thing, or say 'just suck it up and get over it' - they just really have no idea. You have to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're doing the best they can to get through it.
M. Shadows
I think the cool thing about being alive in 2017 is that you can literally put out music as soon and as frequently as you want to because of streaming services.
M. Shadows
If you're going to put out a record just to get a No. 1 and then forget about it after the first week, it's the tail wagging the dog: it doesn't make any sense.
M. Shadows
The world is changing, and the way we consume music is obviously changing. I was one of the biggest CD advocates you will find, but when Apple music and digital options came out, like for everyone else, it was more conducive to my lifestyle.
M. Shadows
Most people know we're kind of one of the only bands around right now that will admit that we're Republican.
M. Shadows
If you make money, what's it worth if you can't be with your family?
M. Shadows
I think Kanye West is brilliant at what he does: he's got a different live show, different merch for every tour, different vibes, and he just puts out great records.
M. Shadows
Always from day one, we were the band on Warped Tour with a fog machine, and our backdrop had to be up - everyone thought we were the biggest idiots for that, total posers. But for us, we wanted to be over the top.
M. Shadows
I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, the Doors, Elton John, Sabbath, Metallica, GN'R, Megadeth - just classic rock, classic metal stuff.
M. Shadows
We just found that in 2016, if you announce a record, and it's coming out in three months, and you're just giving people breadcrumbs, it's the most boring, drawn-out experience.
M. Shadows
People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.
M. Shadows
The Brexit thing to me just looks like a difference of opinion. I know things were lied about, but that should be a wake-up call to get all the information before you vote about something. Educate yourself.
M. Shadows
When you look at metal, it's probably one of the healthiest genres when you look at it in a worldwide perspective - every single country listens to metal.
M. Shadows
The more kids that we can meet or kids that are terminally ill, we try to do it because it's really important, and you can see the hope in their eyes and in their families and their parents.
M. Shadows
When you think of rock and roll and metal, a lot of it is based around the riff. If you can sing over the riff and what the arrangements are going to be like, you have to leave space for what most people consider one of the most key essential parts, which is the vocalist.
M. Shadows
We want metal to be dangerous again. How cool would that be?
M. Shadows
What made 'Dark Side Of The Moon' so great is some of the mystique and where it was coming from and just the authenticity of it.
M. Shadows
I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'
M. Shadows
The metalcore has been left behind. It's not something that any of us find enjoyment in listening to, so it's obviously not the direction we would write songs in.
M. Shadows
I think 'The Stage' is kind of left field.
M. Shadows
'This Means War' is up there with 'Hail to the King' in terms of crowd reaction and kids chanting for it.
M. Shadows
We have this yearning to know the answers to the big questions about space and why we're here; we can't evolve fast enough to figure these answers out on our own, but we can do it through artificial intelligence. But there's also some very scary downsides that could come if we don't put the right safety precautions in there.
M. Shadows
I think everyone in the band has had someone that's served in their family. I wouldn't say that anybody has a military family, but both of my grandfathers were in the military.
M. Shadows
I go online, and I love watching heavy metal bands and guitar players play heavy metal versions of the 'Zelda' theme, and people do all the 'Zelda' music, which is one of my favorite soundtracks.
M. Shadows
When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.
M. Shadows
A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me.
M. Shadows
Honestly, I never thought we'd get a nomination for a Grammy, period. To be honest, we felt that if we were ever going to get one, we thought we had 'City of Evil' and 'Nightmare' and 'Hail to the King,' and those were all big records, and they never even sniffed at us.
M. Shadows
When I was very young, it was Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I'd play air guitar on my bed. They've been the thread throughout my life.
M. Shadows
Someone sent me an article on AI that was written by Tim Urban on the website Wait but Why - that was kind of where I stuck my toes in the puddle, and I said, 'OK, I've gotta learn about this!' I felt like this is one of those things that our generation is going to have to answer for, eventually, and I just wanted to educate myself on it.
M. Shadows
We are ever evolving and never repeat ourselves.
M. Shadows
If there's something I really like or a chord progression, I write a note in my Blackberry, and maybe a year later, I'll revisit it and ask, 'What did I like about that?' I really don't try to think too much about it. I like to be fresh.
M. Shadows
Growing up, I was always playing with video games.
M. Shadows
Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.
M. Shadows
I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013.
M. Shadows
We're really excited to be even talked about in the same breath as Foo Fighters or Metallica.
M. Shadows
I've never made a comment on a message board in my life.
M. Shadows
Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are necessary.
M. Shadows
We're trying to change the whole way our merch is viewed, in terms of just not a bunch of skulls interlaced; you know, every album can look the same, so they're going to be stylized and different.
M. Shadows
If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.
M. Shadows
Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music, which is always really special.
M. Shadows
Unless someone physically tries to attack me, I don't care what anyone does.
M. Shadows
Music and space collide for me, as I find them incredibly stimulating.
M. Shadows
I used to get a huge kick out of walking into a record store and finding something I didn't know was out.
M. Shadows
I recall us selling out L.A.'s 5,000-capacity Gibson Amphitheatre and flying straight to Germany to play a 300-capacity room where we'd only sold 120 tickets. This was when 'City Of Evil' was really taking off in the U.S., but it seemed like Europe was less interested.
M. Shadows
I've had friends who've had depression or been on medication because their pituitary glands aren't giving out enough hormones - so I've been around a lot of people who've had problems like that. I've always been open to talk about that.
M. Shadows
I've always been a really open person around my friends.
M. Shadows
The thing about covers is that the first thing you're going to notice is the vocals, because it's not the same person.
M. Shadows
I got an email saying we were nominated for a Grammy, and I instantly thought it was a joke. So I started Googling the nominees, and there we were!
M. Shadows
I know that sometimes we, as Americans, we reach outside of our means, and every once in a while we like to 'police the world,' but I think we do a lot of good as well.
M. Shadows
I want to stay away from trends and do what we want to do musically.
M. Shadows
We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.
M. Shadows
As we develop, I just see us following our heart on this musical journey.
M. Shadows
A lot of the metal bands that were around when Metallica put out 'The Black Album,' now they're playing clubs, and Metallica is playing stadiums.
M. Shadows
The song 'Paradigm' talks about nanobots - and how they can potentially be used to cure diseases and help you live forever. But how much of a human being would you be at that point? If you're 70 percent machine and 30 percent human, are you going to lose yourself?
M. Shadows
We kind of reached this point in life where we don't really want to put out anything just to put something out. We really don't want it to be like, 'Two years are up. You've had your break; now do another record and get it out there.'
M. Shadows
I'm kind of a geek when it comes to talking about chord structures or melody, so I always loved in-depth conversations with musicians about things. I also enjoy when a fan can just put something on, and they really know nothing about music other than they like it and it touches them in some way.
M. Shadows
Musically, I just like when people are knowledgeable about music and they can talk to you about it.
M. Shadows
One thing that was frustrating to us, always, was having to do so much press building up an album, and you're asked so many questions about, you know, is it more melodic, is it heavier, are you doing your old stuff, is it new?
M. Shadows
I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is 'Fermi Paradox,' it's the song before 'Exist.' To me it's got the coolest, it's just so bizarre because it's got one of the most melodic vocal melodies, but we put it over a black metal blast beats.
M. Shadows
We write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record.
M. Shadows
We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.
M. Shadows
We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.
M. Shadows
To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.
M. Shadows
Personally, I just want to hear good songs.
M. Shadows
It really does help everyone when there are some big bands leading the charge.
M. Shadows
For me, 'Far Beyond Driven' just had an oomph that kicked it over the edge and just pure aggression. And I always appreciated that.
M. Shadows
When we were growing up, we listened to all sorts of music, but the first band that really grabbed all of us live was AFI.
M. Shadows
We love the idea of putting out music in a non-conventional way.
M. Shadows
We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.
M. Shadows
It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music.
M. Shadows
Usually, when you're putting out a record, you have reviews from people a week before, and you have a vibe 'cause everyone's heard it - you've heard feedback from everyone, and they've listened to your single for a couple of months. Radio's playing it.
M. Shadows
People want things now. People in the rock world seem to not want to give it to them - they want to keep doing things the old way - and one thing that has always bummed me out is when we get a single three months out, and then you have to keep getting fed with bread crumbs.
M. Shadows
We go out there and kill it every night, and you can see what this means to people.
M. Shadows
I'm glad that we can add something new to the fold that Metallica's not going to bring to the table, and they're going to do what they do.
M. Shadows
We like to wait to a point where we have to get in there and write a record because we're just so built up.
M. Shadows
If we can inspire a kid to pick up a guitar - and less and less kids are doing so these days - it'd be really cool because I know how it felt growing up and how special that was for me.
M. Shadows
We do a lot of things that kind of annoy people and our fan base. We try not to get overloaded on it. For us, that means we don't do social media stuff - we have an Avenged Sevenfold social media, but none of the band members have Facebooks or any sort of Twitter.
M. Shadows
The first Maiden record I ever got was 'Piece of Mind,' and I only got it because I thought the artwork was cool, and everyone talked about Iron Maiden. But they weren't necessarily the most popular metal band in America for a 12-year-old kid when I discovered them.
M. Shadows
The 'Black Album' was my real first introduction to Metallica. I was, like, 12 or 13 at the time. We were just getting into music, and I liked that album a lot, but it didn't necessarily change my life. But when I started picking up all the other Metallica records, 'Master of Puppets' was the one to me that stuck out with its songwriting.
M. Shadows
If I was to play any song for anybody asking, 'What is metal about?' I'd just play 'Master of Puppets.' The progressions and the bridge are brilliant.
M. Shadows
If I ran the Grammys, it would probably go bankrupt.
M. Shadows
For me, a band like Gojira brings something really cool and new to the table.
M. Shadows
When I'm by myself asking the questions that many of us do at some point in our lives, I look to the stars knowing that the answers are somewhere out there waiting to be discovered.
M. Shadows
Games helped me a lot when The Rev died. It was something I able to go do and stay in the house and not have to be outside and deal with people. But I also found a community online that I was able to escape the feeling I was having of losing a best friend.
M. Shadows
No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.
M. Shadows
We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we're not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath.
M. Shadows
I've said the Grammys messed up metal because it's not on TV. What I'm saying is when you're in a metal category, it's not televised, and it doesn't move the needle forward for metal artists, and I wish they had more respect for the genre.
M. Shadows
Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.
M. Shadows
Ever since 'Hail to the King,' we've been more cognizant of our chord progressions, our key changes, drama in songs, a lot of dynamics - we've really added a lot of that in there.
M. Shadows
The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
M. Stanton Evans
If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
M. Stanton Evans
In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
M. Stanton Evans
When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
M. Stanton Evans
I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
M. Stanton Evans
When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
M. Stanton Evans
I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
M. Stanton Evans
Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.
M. Stanton Evans
I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
M. Stanton Evans
I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
M. Stanton Evans
From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.
M. Stanton Evans
The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
M. Stanton Evans
As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
M. Stanton Evans
Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
M. Stanton Evans
I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
M. Stanton Evans
I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.
M. Stanton Evans
A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.
M. Stanton Evans
Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.
M. Stanton Evans
It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.
M. Stanton Evans
The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
M. Stanton Evans
Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
M. Stanton Evans
Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
M. Stanton Evans
Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
M. Stanton Evans
Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.
M. Stanton Evans
My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
M. Ward
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
M. Ward
One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
M. Ward
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
M. Ward
I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
M. Ward
Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
M. Ward
I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.
M. Ward
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.
M. Ward
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
M. Ward
I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.
M. Ward
I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
M. Ward
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
M. Ward
I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
M. Ward
I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.
M. Ward
I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
M. Ward
I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.
M. Ward
When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
M. Ward
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. Ward
I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
M. Ward
I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
M. Ward
The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
M. Ward
I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
M. Ward
I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
M. Ward
There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.
M. Ward
I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
M. Ward
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
M. Ward
I have a very strong belief in God.
M. Ward
The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.
M. Ward
My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
M.I.A.
When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
M.I.A.
Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.
M.I.A.
I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
M.I.A.
I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.
M.I.A.
My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
M.I.A.
Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
M.I.A.
Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.
M.I.A.
At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
M.I.A.
In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.
M.I.A.
Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
M.I.A.
I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
M.I.A.
You have to constantly redefine who you are.
M.I.A.
You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
M.I.A.
Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
M.I.A.
The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
M.I.A.
In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
M.I.A.
I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
M.I.A.
Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
M.I.A.
My record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can't talk about money.
M.I.A.
I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
M.I.A.
It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
M.I.A.
I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
M.I.A.
I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
M.I.A.
The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I was contacted by Versace, it seemed a great idea to invert the circle. Versace's designs have always been copied; now it's Versace that copies the copies, so those that copy must copy the copies. So this will continue.
M.I.A.
I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.
M.I.A.
I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
M.I.A.
When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.
M.I.A.
I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
M.I.A.
Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
M.I.A.
Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.
M.I.A.
In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
M.I.A.
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
M.I.A.
It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?
M.I.A.
My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
M.I.A.
In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
M.I.A.
I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
M.I.A.
I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.↵M.I.A.↵Me Remember Dance"
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
M.I.A.
My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
M.I.A.
Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
M.I.A.
'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
M.I.A.
When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
M.I.A.
I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
M.I.A.
I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
M.I.A.
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
M.I.A.
As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.
M.I.A.
I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.
M.I.A.
In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.
Ma Huateng
You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
Ma Huateng
The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
Ma Huateng
At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.
Ma Huateng
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
Ma Huateng
Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
Ma Huateng
A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.
Ma Huateng
There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.
Ma Huateng
On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.
Ma Huateng
Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
Ma Huateng
If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.
Ma Huateng
I think every Internet user likes personalization.
Ma Huateng
It's difficult for any single company to develop all the applications and services.
Ma Huateng
My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
Ma Huateng
I think Steve Jobs is my idol.
Ma Huateng
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.
Ma Jian
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
Ma Jian
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
Ma Jian
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
Ma Jian
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
Ma Jian
I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.
Ma Jian
In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
Ma Jian
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
Ma Jian
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Ma Jian
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
Ma Jian
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
Ma Jian
In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
Ma Jian
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.
Ma Jian
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
Ma Jian
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
Ma Jian
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian
The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
Ma Jian
I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
Ma Jian
While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
Ma Jian
I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet.
Ma Jian
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
Ma Jian
On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
Ma Jian
'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.
Ma Jian
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
Ma Jian
Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
Ma Jian
Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
Ma Jian
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian
I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
Ma Jian
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
Ma Jian
I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
Ma Jian
I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
Ma Jian
When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
Ma Jian
I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
Ma Jian
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
Ma Jian
Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, low domestic production costs, and strong consumer demand have let the country develop strong export-based manufacturing, making the country the workshop of the world.
Ma Jun
Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
Ma Jun
No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
Ma Jun
Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
Ma Jun
Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
Ma Jun
If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
Ma Jun
On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.
Ma Jun
Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.
Ma Jun
Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
Ma Jun
Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.
Ma Jun
We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
Ma Jun
Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.
Ma Jun
We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
Ma Jun
We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
Ma Jun
People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
Ma Jun
It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.
Ma Jun
Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.
Ma Jun
Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can't happen here.
Ma Jun
We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
Ma Jun
China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.
Ma Jun
China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.
Ma Jun
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
Ma Jun
In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
Ma Jun
One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.
Ma Jun
Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
Ma Jun
While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
Ma Jun
China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.
Ma Jun
With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
Ma Jun
Ever since we published the first Apple report, we've had some other brands turning more proactive.
Ma Jun
I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
Ma Jun
I hope they can see that as a consumer, if they express themselves, they may make an impact and leverage their impact on the brands, and the brands can leverage their buying power on tens of thousands of polluters - suppliers - in China.
Ma Jun
Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
Ma Jun
The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
Ma Jun
China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.
Ma Jun
When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
Ma Jun
To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
Ma Jun
The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
Ma Jun
In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
Ma Jun
I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.
Ma Jun
We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.
Ma Jun
Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.
Ma Jun
Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.
Ma Jun
It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.
Ma Jun
At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
Ma Jun
In China we need to do our own part to try to combat global climate change.
Ma Jun
There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
Ma Jun
China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
Ma Jun
We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.
Ma Jun
I think there are a few brands like Nike and Patagonia which are quite progressively minded.
Ma Jun
Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.
Ma Jun
I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
Ma Jun
I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.
Ma Jun
We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
Ma Jun
If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
Ma Jun
They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
Ma Jun
Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
Ma Jun
What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.
Ma Jun
Apple has made this commitment that it's a green company. So how do you fulfill your commitment if you don't consider you have responsibility in your suppliers' pollution?
Ma Jun
Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
Ma Jun
China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.
Ma Jun
In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the officials' efforts to protect the environment is still a pivotal issue.
Ma Jun
Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
Ma Long
Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
Ma Long
We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.
Ma Long
No matter who I meet, I won't have any pressure.
Ma Long
It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
Ma Long
I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.
Ma Long
I just want to do my job.
Ma Long
I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.
Ma Long
To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
Ma Long
I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
Ma Long
I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.
Ma Long
This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
Ma Long
They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
Ma Rainey
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
Ma Rainey
In a traditional Japanese or Chinese garden, it's not only about the building or temple but about the whole setup - the structure, the landscape, the light, the plants, the water. The whole experience that makes your life there so beautiful.
Ma Yansong
I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product.
Ma Yansong
I don't use tools to create things, but I use them to realize things.
Ma Yansong
We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.
Ma Yansong
China has some cities, traditional cities, with a long history. They are so beautiful, and they were planned so smartly. I call them gardens on the city scale. For example, Beijing has mountains, waters, lakes, bridges, towers. It was a very poetic city.
Ma Yansong
Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.
Ma Yansong
'Shan shui' you can literally translate as 'mountain and water.' In traditional Chinese culture, there are a lot of paintings about shan shui, but now we're talking about a shan-shui city.
Ma Yansong
The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness.
Ma Yansong
Since the Industrial Revolution, we tend to use technology to show our power: you know, we build high-rises, towers, big buildings that become symbols of power and capitalism. We don't talk about how emotions and nature can be connected.
Ma Yansong
Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.
Ma Yansong
Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape.
Ma Yansong
Traditionally, in the Eastern World, man and nature are close: men find happiness and prosperity in the beauty of nature, even if the nature is actually built to match this very need.
Ma Yansong
What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture.
Ma Yansong
The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response.
Ma Yansong
We need architects to be visionaries.
Ma Yansong
We need to enter a new era to make nature and humans more emotionally connected in modern cities.
Ma Yansong
Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.
Ma Yansong
People love to go closer to nature and other people, so we need to create environments that let people have these emotional connections.
Ma Yansong
Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He's from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that.
Ma Yansong
The city of the future development will be shifted from the pursuit of material civilisation to the pursuit of nature. This is what happens after human beings experience industrial civilisation at the expense of the natural environment.
Ma Yansong
Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.
Ma Yansong
The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.
Ma Yansong
Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.
Ma Yansong
If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved.
Ma Yansong
I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal with efficiency, the function, the structure.
Ma Yansong
I grew up in Beijing, and there weren't many modern buildings during my childhood. I was influenced by traditional culture - the courtyards, the hutongs, the old city, and all the art forms - so, very naturally, I brought this to my practice.
Ma Yansong
A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional.
Ma Yansong
A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape.
Ma Yansong
Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture?
Ma Yansong
In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be.
Ma Yansong
I have never been to Mars. What will we discover when we get there? A red landscape, quiet horizon, frozen glaciers? Probably all is as beautiful, in its own way, as the Earth was thousands of years ago.
Ma Yansong
If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.
Ma Yansong
Tiananmen Square is a sensitive topic because many things happened there. The idea of turning the plaza into a forest makes many people feel uncomfortable.
Ma Yansong
My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn't want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place.
Ma Yansong
In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very similar. They make so many massive residential buildings.
Ma Yansong
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.
Ma Yansong
When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture.
Ma Yansong
The world itself is already a great textbook.
Ma Yansong
Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage people to live.
Ma Yansong
China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization.
Ma Yansong
There must be a way to combine the high rise and high-density environment with nature. Maybe we can have our gardens in the sky.
Ma Yansong
We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be.
Ma Yansong
Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial curves.
Ma Yansong
We proposed Tiananmen Square - this very empty political square in the city centre - should turn green. Maybe in the future, this space could become a very human and open urban space. And if that happens, I think that all the cities around China will follow to change.
Ma Yansong
Chinese people need to be aware of their present and ask, 'What's our culture? What can we bring to the world?' I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Ma Yansong
In traditional cities like Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, nature was a very important part of urban planning - not only as a landscape but a part of daily life.
Ma Yansong
I'm trying to express nature in big cities.
Ma Yansong
I actually feel like a very traditional architect.
Ma Yansong
A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings.
Ma Yansong
In our traditional culture, people have a very different view towards nature than in Western culture. We consider humans as part of nature. But in the West, they talk about protecting nature. That's a joke because nature doesn't care; it's humans who need to protect themselves.
Ma Yansong
In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste.
Ma Yansong
I think architects have a major role in being responsible for illustrating what the future could be. Because of the very strong political and commercial climate, many architects are trying very hard to solve everyday issues, to respond to the authorities.
Ma Yansong
When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future?
Ma Yansong
It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if they don't like you, they accept your vision as an individual.
Ma Yansong
I think where traditional values are concerned, Chinese people see nature as very symbolic. It's a form of culture.
Ma Yansong
To allow millions of people to live together on limited land, we have to go to the sky; we have to build a high rise. But we can still build nature and social space into the towers. Each family can have their own courtyard in the sky.
Ma Yansong
Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people.
Ma Yansong
When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.
Ma Yansong
I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the past.
Ma Yansong
The way a human can coexist with nature has to be at the spiritual level.
Ma Yansong
With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
Ma Ying-jeou
Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
Ma Ying-jeou
People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
Ma Ying-jeou
I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.
Ma Ying-jeou
It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.
Ma Ying-jeou
I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.
Ma Ying-jeou
Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.
Ma Ying-jeou
In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
Maajid Nawaz
Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
Maajid Nawaz
I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
Maajid Nawaz
Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.
Maajid Nawaz
The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.
Maajid Nawaz
Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.
Maajid Nawaz
In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me.
Maajid Nawaz
The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.
Maajid Nawaz
The positive is I'm delighted at the way the Liberal Democrats as a party have supported me and the way in which the work I'm doing, through the Liberal Democrats, has abled to broaden some of the work I work on.
Maajid Nawaz
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
Maajid Nawaz
Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.
Maajid Nawaz
Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
Maajid Nawaz
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
Maajid Nawaz
Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
Maajid Nawaz
'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
Maajid Nawaz
I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.
Maajid Nawaz
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
Maajid Nawaz
The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
Maajid Nawaz
If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Maajid Nawaz
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
Maajid Nawaz
Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offence.
Maajid Nawaz
Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.
Maajid Nawaz
I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
Maajid Nawaz
I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
Maajid Nawaz
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
Maajid Nawaz
In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
Maajid Nawaz
The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.
Maajid Nawaz
Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
Maajid Nawaz
28I became, suddenly, not just a Muslim in faith. I became a Muslim in politics. Somebody whose politics were pre-defined by one interpretation of Islam.
Maajid Nawaz
To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
Maajid Nawaz
Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.
Maajid Nawaz
The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
Maajid Nawaz
Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
Maajid Nawaz
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
Maajid Nawaz
Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.
Maajid Nawaz
What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
Maajid Nawaz
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.
Maajid Nawaz
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
Maajid Nawaz
Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
Maajid Nawaz
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
Maajid Nawaz
The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.
Maajid Nawaz
I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.
Maajid Nawaz
I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
Maajid Nawaz
Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
Maajid Nawaz
I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.
Maajid Nawaz
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
Maajid Nawaz
By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.
Maajid Nawaz
One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
Maajid Nawaz
The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
Maajid Nawaz
I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
Maajid Nawaz
I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
Maajid Nawaz
I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
Maajid Nawaz
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
Maajid Nawaz
The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.
Maajid Nawaz
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
Maajid Nawaz
I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
Maajid Nawaz
All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
Maajid Nawaz
America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
Maajid Nawaz
Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
Maajid Nawaz
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
Maajid Nawaz
I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value.
Maajid Nawaz
My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
Maajid Nawaz
Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism - and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.
Maajid Nawaz
Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
Maajid Nawaz
I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.
Maajid Nawaz
My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
Maajid Nawaz
I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
Maajid Nawaz
There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.
Maajid Nawaz
There were people who had sampled my voice from speeches when I was an Islamist and made them the chorus of pro-Islamist rap songs who then began talking about me as an apostate.
Maajid Nawaz
Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
Maajid Nawaz
Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
Maajid Nawaz
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
Maajid Nawaz
Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.
Maajid Nawaz
Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
Maajid Nawaz
Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
Maajid Nawaz
Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
Maajid Nawaz
As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
Maajid Nawaz
Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
Maajid Nawaz
Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
Maajid Nawaz
The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.
Maajid Nawaz
In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
Maajid Nawaz
Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
Maajid Nawaz
Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
Maajid Nawaz
For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
Maajid Nawaz
De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches.
Maajid Nawaz
During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
Maajid Nawaz
As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
Maajid Nawaz
The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
Maajid Nawaz
Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.
Maajid Nawaz
I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
Maajid Nawaz
The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.
Maajid Nawaz
My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
Maajid Nawaz
The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
Maajid Nawaz
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
Maajid Nawaz
I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.
Maajid Nawaz
The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
Maajid Nawaz
Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
Maajid Nawaz
The first point of contact for radicalisation is almost always a personal one. Prisons and universities, for example, tend to be easily and regularly infiltrated by radical groups, who use them as forums to propagate their ideas.
Maajid Nawaz
For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.
Maajid Nawaz
The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
Maajid Nawaz
Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
Maajid Nawaz
Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
Maajid Nawaz
A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.
Maajid Nawaz
The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.
Maajid Nawaz
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.
Maajid Nawaz
Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
Maajid Nawaz
There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.
Maajid Nawaz
In today's Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, the weakest are those minorities-within-minorities for whom the legal right to exit from their communities' constraints amounts to nothing before the enforcement of cultural and religious shaming.
Maajid Nawaz
If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
Maajid Nawaz
Just enjoy every moment - don't stress. Just be yourself.
Mabel
feel so blessed that I grew up in the age of the independent woman, the survivor. I had Destiny's Child telling me I didn't need a man to feel good about myself, and I want to carry on that message.
Mabel
found being a teenager quite difficult, actually. I put a lot of pressure on myself, and now, looking back at it, I really wish that I had relaxed and just enjoyed it more.
Mabel
I'm such a control freak that camping, for me, is difficult. I can't be this crazy, carefree person that wears the same outfit for four days.
Mabel
Swedes celebrate Christmas Eve. Every Sunday leading up to Christmas, we light a candle, then make gingerbread and saffron buns.
Mabel
I think there's something amazing about British soul.
Mabel
What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.
Mabel
I wish I could teleport and cut out the travelling in between gigs. I want the luxury of the shows without the painful bits stuck on a tour bus.
Mabel
Being a solo artist in general can be incredibly lonely. It's funny how often the bigger you get sometimes, the lonelier you feel.
Mabel
I lived wherever my parents felt like making music, which had its ups and downs - I've had to move schools, but I've also seen a lot of amazing places and been on tour with my parents.
Mabel
I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.
Mabel
I have, like, 'Finders Keepers' fever now! Sometimes I go in the studio, and I'm like, 'That worked so well, and I wrote it in 45 minutes, so if I try wearing the same outfit and playing on the same piano, it'll happen again.'
Mabel
Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be white.
Mabel
Young women look at me and think, 'She's really confident. She has always had it figured out,' but actually, I really, really haven't. That has come over time as I became a young woman.
Mabel
I think people look back at the '90s as a golden era of female empowerment.
Mabel
Harry Styles threw a cream pie at my face in front of 15,000 people to thank me for the months we spent on the road.
Mabel
'Finders Keepers' is guaranteed to create a vibe. If I'm having a difficult show, then I know I've got that song at the end to turn it around, and the phones will come out.
Mabel
Whenever I have a bad day, I tell everybody around me, 'Just so guys know I am having a bad day and I am nervous about these things,' and that makes all the difference.
Mabel
In the bathroom, having taken my make-up off and opened my eyes, I always think there's a ghost behind me. It feels like there's a weird presence. Maybe it's my brain reacting to me without make-up.
Mabel
I think there is a misconception that being open and honest and saying what it is you want is something we should be embarrassed about. But that's just not me. I am a very honest person. I always tell somebody what I am looking for, and I don't want people to waste my time, basically.
Mabel
Having a Top 10 record changed my life a lot, you know?
Mabel
When it's my show, I know that everybody is there to see me - but I like a challenge, and I like the fact that at festivals not everybody is there to see me, but I have the chance to convert people.
Mabel
My mum is one of my style icons!
Mabel
I'm not going to lie: I'd love to win a Grammy.
Mabel
I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.
Mabel
Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.
Mabel
It sounds really cheesy, but as a woman, I feel like I sort of found myself.
Mabel
I moved from Stockholm to London, and I didn't want to work with my parents or have them help me in any way, I think just to prove to myself that I have my own talent.
Mabel
Kehlani is so refreshing in terms of R&B.
Mabel
A couple of days out of the month, I talk to my stylist, and we just get a big chunk of looks that'll last me a while.
Mabel
I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up with creative parents and around creative people, many of whom live with anxiety. My mum would sometimes say that it was a beautiful thing, and that it would come in handy when making music - and it's made me a more empathetic person.
Mabel
Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.
Mabel
I think the best thing that I can do is be myself. I don't know about being a role model; I think placing that sort of title on myself is too much. It's trying to be this thing that puts loads of pressure on something.
Mabel
I want people to really care when I release an album.
Mabel
I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was playing on the piano.
Mabel
I want to make people dance, I want to make people smile, and I want my music to get played in clubs.
Mabel
Yes, sharing super-personal experiences is scary, but I can only get up on stage and perform it if I really connect with the music.
Mabel
I remember trying so hard to get into Bon Iver. I'd lie in bed listening with my eyes screwed up, like, 'This is just depressing me.'
Mabel
There's so many R&B songs where guys are talking about a clingy girl, like, 'I don't want a girlfriend, and this girl's so clingy, and blah blah blah.' But I'm a woman, and I've been in situations that have been the reverse of that, so I wanted to tell that story.
Mabel
There's so many inspiring women dominating the charts, so I feel like I'm definitely a part of a wave that's just really interesting and really cool.
Mabel
I can't believe that I'm MTV's Brand New for 2018. Big love to MTV for even giving me this opportunity and to all the fans for voting.
Mabel
I grew up listening to loads of afrobeats; my grandad's Sierra Leonean, so that was always around. My mum loves those kind of beats, too.
Mabel
I know I love going to my gym - I have a whole list of things I love to do by myself without needing someone else to make me happy.
Mabel
Producing isn't my favourite bit about what I do, but the fact that I know how to do it gives me this sense of power in situations that are super male-dominated.
Mabel
I think knowing where you came from and where you want to go is really important.
Mabel
When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of '90s R&B.
Mabel
Being mainstream is fun.
Mabel
I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.
Mabel
Coming from an R&B background, I was like, 'I'm gonna make slow jams.'
Mabel
I was a sensitive kid.
Mabel
I want to be known for my music, and that takes time.
Mabel
I really wanted to find my own path.
Mabel
My first-ever radio interview was with Annie Mac on Radio 1!
Mabel
The important thing is that my music is getting a positive reaction and that people are connecting with it.
Mabel
All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.
Mabel
Youssou N'Dour was really important to me growing up.
Mabel
I've been working a lot with this girl Kelly Kiara. She's amazing. She's going to be super important for R&B coming out of the U.K.
Mabel
I am very much my own person and my own artist.
Mabel
I like to spend time alone before I go on stage.
Mabel
I have a lot of energy in general, and I am pretty crazy.
Mabel
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
Mac Davis
I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
Mac Davis
Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
Mac Davis
I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
Mac Davis
Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
Mac Davis
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
Mac Davis
One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.
Mac Davis
I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.
Mac Davis
First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
Mac Davis
There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
Mac Davis
I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.
Mac Davis
I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
Mac Davis
If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.
Mac Davis
In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
Mac Davis
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
Mac Davis
I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
Mac Davis
Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
Mac Davis
I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.
Mac DeMarco
For me, it's all about the Canadian tuxedo, and maybe a bolero. The province I grew up in in Alberta is pretty much the denim capital of Canada. The first premier of Alberta started Grand Western Garment, which Levi's bought later on.
Mac DeMarco
I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.
Mac DeMarco
My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.
Mac DeMarco
Perfectionist? That's not something I am.
Mac DeMarco
I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music before that, and I played a bit of guitar when I was younger and thought maybe I'd become a guitar teacher or something, but when I saw other kids doing it, I was like, 'Whoa, these are great bands! I can do it, too.'
Mac DeMarco
I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
Mac DeMarco
When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.
Mac DeMarco
One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
Mac DeMarco
I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.
Mac DeMarco
I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
Mac DeMarco
I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
Mac DeMarco
A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
Mac DeMarco
I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap.
Mac DeMarco
I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
Mac DeMarco
I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
Mac DeMarco
I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.
Mac DeMarco
Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
Mac DeMarco
The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.
Mac DeMarco
The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.
Mac DeMarco
I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
Mac DeMarco
I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
Mac DeMarco
At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
Mac DeMarco
It's so crazy now with the Internet and being able to play shows to people who are actually interested in you. I still feel so lucky when that happens. Things just happen so fast.
Mac DeMarco
I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.
Mac DeMarco
I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
Mac DeMarco
When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
Mac DeMarco
If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'
Mac DeMarco
A lot of people assume I have a great hat collection, but kids steal my hats at every show. I've had all these hats that I've loved, but now they're in some little kids' possession. It's difficult to replenish. I don't think the kids realize this.
Mac DeMarco
I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.
Mac DeMarco
When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.↵Mac Miller↵Sad World Yourself"
There's a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.↵Mac Miller↵Beauty World Solution"
It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.↵Mac Miller↵Me Crazy New"
I like seeing good people win.↵Mac Miller↵Good Good People Win"
I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.↵Mac Miller↵Music Culture Looking"
My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.↵Mac Miller↵Music Problems Will"
I don't know if I'm a feminist, but I just know that I am all for outspoken, powerful women.↵Mac Miller↵Women I Am Know"
I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. I'm with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me.↵Mac Miller↵Love Music Teen"
I think, a lot of times, people just want to be cool, and to be in love is not cool. But I think it's the coolest. I think love is the coolest thing that there is.↵Mac Miller↵Love Cool Love Is"
When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.
Mac Miller
To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.
Mac Miller
With 'Blue Slide Park' I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I'm not mad at it, but that was its goal.
Mac Miller
I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.
Mac Miller
I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.
Mac Miller
People put their voice everywhere. All through Instagram comments. As minuscule and kind of stupid as that is, at the same time, it's dope. People really feel like, 'I have to say something,' which is sometimes a little much, but like, 'Go ahead, man. Speak away.'
Mac Miller
As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.
Mac Miller
I flood the Internet with what I think is quality content. That's why I did things like giving out a song every 100,000 Twitter followers because I am just looking for ways to get my fans to hear all this music without over saturating things.
Mac Miller
Fear, to me, is a guiding thing more than anything.
Mac Miller
If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.
Mac Miller
Just because someone may or may not have someone that writes some words for them doesn't mean that, A, they don't have to kill it on the performance, and, B, they don't have to have the ear for what's tight and what's not, which is something a lot of people don't have.
Mac Miller
If I stay in one mindset or place for too long, I get crazy.
Mac Miller
The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.
Mac Miller
I've always wanted to sing. I don't think I have a great voice, but I just think that I get the emotion. It's very authentic. Whatever emotion I'm feeling, I can sing it, and you can feel it.
Mac Miller
I don't want to go on tour and have everyone just sitting there waiting for one song.
Mac Miller
Being famous used to just defeat me. I wouldn't leave my house because I was worried about someone being like, 'Oh, are you Mac Miller?' and then the rest of the night I couldn't be myself.
Mac Miller
People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.
Mac Miller
I always thought I'd look corny in the type of rap video in the club with girls and all that type of stuff. I just didn't think I could really pull that off. We always think it's more fun and better just to go outside the box and to use our videos to show cool concepts.
Mac Miller
'Cruise Control' was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar on it.
Mac Miller
My mom did more press than me for 'Faces.'
Mac Miller
Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.
Mac Miller
Everyone that I work with is a friend. I won't make a record with anyone unless we kick it.
Mac Miller
I like to enjoy good music. I like Michael Jackson; I don't care who wrote the songs.
Mac Miller
I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.
Mac Miller
When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.
Mac Miller
I never watched 'Cheers,' actually.
Mac Miller
Performing 60,000 people, that's easy. The energy's already there. They're already doing most of the work. All you gotta do is not forget the words - and feed them energy, too.
Mac Miller
I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.
Mac Miller
I like tattoos. I'm gonna be covered. I'm not going to touch my face or under the chin on the neck: it's my least favorite place.
Mac Miller
I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.
Mac Miller
I just like to sing for people who have lost love.
Mac Miller
I just have always felt as long as I'm 100 percent honest, then it's just me. It's a lot easier to sleep at night that way.
Mac Miller
Doing DJ sets is like - is difficult to me. Cause you have to find that happy medium of playing what the crowd wants and what you want.
Mac Miller
Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.
Mac Miller
I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.
Mac Miller
Radio's a scary thing for me. It's dope to be on there.
Mac Miller
We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
Mac Thornberry
Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
Mac Thornberry
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
Mac Thornberry
In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
Mac Thornberry
We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
Mac Thornberry
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
Mac Thornberry
For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
Mac Thornberry
Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.
Mac Thornberry
The Constitution places the responsibility on Congress for setting the size of the U.S. military, ensuring sufficient resources are in place to train and equip it, and funding maintenance programs and replacing worn-out equipment. We have a moral responsibility to ensure that our people are fully prepared and fully supported.
Mac Thornberry
To protect America's security, we are going to have to pull America's military out of the swamp of Washington politics.
Mac Thornberry
The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
Mac Thornberry
I receive contributions from a variety of people who are interested in what the Armed Services Committee does.
Mac Thornberry
Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
Mac Thornberry
The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
Mac Thornberry
Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
Mac Thornberry
In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.
Mac Thornberry
My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
Mac Thornberry
It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.
Mac Thornberry
I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
Mac Thornberry
No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
Mac Thornberry
And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
Mac Thornberry
When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
Mac Thornberry
President Trump has made rebuilding our military strength one of his top priorities. More money is certainly required, but so is reform of the Pentagon and how it does business.
Mac Thornberry
If the men and women who protect the country are to succeed in the missions they are assigned, we simply must invest more in defense.
Mac Thornberry
Making America great again begins with making our military great again.
Mac Thornberry
We need a strong, vibrant economy to produce the tax revenue to fund our military.
Mac Thornberry
Since World War II, the rules-based international order created and maintained by the United States has benefited peoples around the globe and none more so than Americans here at home.
Mac Thornberry
A military starved of resources, training, and equipment will not long be able to protect the country physically or economically.
Mac Thornberry
If China sets the rules for much of the world's economy, America will feel the consequences in our pocketbooks as well as in our security.
Mac Thornberry
An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history.
Mac Thornberry
Any president has to work with Congress.
Mac Thornberry
It would be better for the country if the Pentagon and the military do not shut down at any point because the threats to the country do not shut down.
Mac Thornberry
If you're an adult, if you are eligible to be drafted and vote, then there's a certain amount of decision-making power, and I think we have to be respectful of that.
Mac Thornberry
We face a wide array of threats, which means we have to have a wide array of capabilities.
Mac Thornberry
If you endorse somebody, it's like a stamp of approval and embracing them.
Mac Thornberry
I'm for experimentation. I'm for trying things. That's true whether we're talking about hardware or personnel issues. We need to try some things, because doing what we have always done because we've always done it that way doesn't work.
Mac Thornberry
I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.
Macaulay Culkin
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
Macaulay Culkin
Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
Macaulay Culkin
People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
Macaulay Culkin
It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
Macaulay Culkin
I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
Macaulay Culkin
I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.
Macaulay Culkin
It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.
Macaulay Culkin
As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
Macaulay Culkin
Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
Macaulay Culkin
I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.
Macaulay Culkin
I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
Macaulay Culkin
My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
Macaulay Culkin
Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.
Macaulay Culkin
People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
Macaulay Culkin
I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
Macaulay Culkin
Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
Macaulay Culkin
I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
Macaulay Culkin
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
Macaulay Culkin
Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
Macaulay Culkin
He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
Macaulay Culkin
I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
Macaulay Culkin
I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
Macaulay Culkin
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
Macaulay Culkin
It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
Macaulay Culkin
They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
Macaulay Culkin
I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
Macaulay Culkin
I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.
Macaulay Culkin
I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
Macaulay Culkin
Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
Macaulay Culkin
I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.
Macaulay Culkin
I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
Macaulay Culkin
I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
Macaulay Culkin
I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
Macaulay Culkin
I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and you just sit there and they bring these people in and out, and in out.
Macaulay Culkin
I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.
Macaulay Culkin
I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
Macaulay Culkin
A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
Macaulay Culkin
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
Macaulay Culkin
I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
Macaulay Culkin
I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
Macaulay Culkin
Math is one of my favorite subjects.
Macaulay Culkin
I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
Macaulay Culkin
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
Macaulay Culkin
There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.
Macaulay Culkin
After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
Macaulay Culkin
If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.
Macaulay Culkin
I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
Macaulay Culkin
It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
Macaulay Culkin
All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
Macaulay Culkin
Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
Macaulay Culkin
I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
Macaulay Culkin
It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
Macaulay Culkin
Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
Macaulay Culkin
If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.
Macaulay Culkin
I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
Macaulay Culkin
You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.
Maceo Parker
I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
Maceo Parker
When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
Maceo Parker
Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
Maceo Parker
People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
Maceo Parker
I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.
Maceo Parker
I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift once we start. I'm humming stuff in the dressing room and smiling, looking at myself and making sure I don't have nose hair! But once I get really close to the stage, and the guys are doing the intro thing, I do get a pick-me-up.
Maceo Parker
As far as I'm concerned, I don't really care anymore what people think about me. I'm just gonna be me.
Machine Gun Kelly
There is no VIP. We're all the same.
Machine Gun Kelly
Everyone in our clique rocks a black bandana with the print 'EST 19XX' on them 24/7. As the underdog, you are expected to lose or give up and 'wave the white towel,' so that is why our flag is black. We never give up - never surrender. EST means 'Everyone Stands Together.' The '19XX' is to represent any age.
Machine Gun Kelly
I just keep getting inspired to believe that dreams come true and anything can happen, 'cause I've watched so many impossible things happen.
Machine Gun Kelly
I have Nineties music oozing out of my pores. What made rock & roll back then is that it was uncensored. It was raw and dark. Think of 'Something in the Way,' by Nirvana - he was telling everyone how he felt.
Machine Gun Kelly
The last thing I want to do is be complacent.
Machine Gun Kelly
I respect all grandpas around the world doin' it big.
Machine Gun Kelly
Everything is my fault when you're me. I don't know why.
Machine Gun Kelly
I actually have an Avenged Sevenfold tattoo on my body.
Machine Gun Kelly
It's crazy. Even doing that one episode of 'Catfish,' I get people recognizing me for it who didn't even know my music.
Machine Gun Kelly
Honestly, I look in the mirror, and I'm not the greatest looking kid.
Machine Gun Kelly
I've graced almost every stage in N.Y., from Webster Hall to Gramercy Theater to Best Buy.
Machine Gun Kelly
I love surrealism.
Machine Gun Kelly
The normal MGK reaction that everyone expects is for me to be angry and go off, because my history shows that's the type of attitude I'm bringing to the table.
Machine Gun Kelly
I don't think having a conservative mind in 2012 is a cool thing.
Machine Gun Kelly
I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.
Machine Gun Kelly
When the universe throws something your way, or things happen, I'm one of those people that goes with it, and I don't fight it.
Machine Gun Kelly
Every time I perform, I always try to have that 'wow' factor.
Machine Gun Kelly
You can make something out of nothing. I proved that with my career, making it out of the city that I'm from.
Machine Gun Kelly
I would never think twice about marching next to my brother for an issue we both believe in.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'm a storyteller.
Machine Gun Kelly
Being a rock star rocks.
Machine Gun Kelly
I think, with music, I'm a lyricist who talks about real life things.
Machine Gun Kelly
I've never been comfortable with sharing anything: I was a single child.
Machine Gun Kelly
A lot of time, my inspiration comes from pain: growing pains, hunger pains, or money pains.
Machine Gun Kelly
As soon as 'General Admission' came out, there was a whole new pain that hit me that was rougher than I could imagine.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'm probably one of the wildest, most out-of-control people in the industry.
Machine Gun Kelly
Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'm fortunate to have a baby girl who's super into everything that I say and do and really cooperative and just fun to be around. I couldn't imagine having a rebellious kid like me.
Machine Gun Kelly
My memory stops at 14.
Machine Gun Kelly
Fame is the weirdest thing ever.
Machine Gun Kelly
I was really excited about 'Nerve' with Dave Franco and Emma Roberts.
Machine Gun Kelly
When I was running away, I didn't have somebody there to help me run away. All I had was DMX's voice or Eminem's voice or Tupac's voice.
Machine Gun Kelly
Imogen Poots loves music to death and can literally name 300 bands that she listens to, that you've never heard. She's so heavy into the underground music scene. When she's speaking on music, she means it.
Machine Gun Kelly
I don't want my daughter to grow up and feel like she has to try that hard to get people to accept her.
Machine Gun Kelly
I don't think that my music without pain is good music - and I wouldn't know, because I haven't made any music without pain.
Machine Gun Kelly
New life situations equal out to new kinds of songs.
Machine Gun Kelly
I feel like a celebrity is someone who sits and takes pictures with people 'cause they love themselves and how they look and how people look at them. But I just want to be regular and respected for my artistry because music doesn't necessarily have a face.
Machine Gun Kelly
I think more like an entertainer rather than just a rapper. My overall goal is to never be listed as just a rapper. You know how Michael Jackson was listed as a great entertainer? That's what I want to be.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'm an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.
Machine Gun Kelly
My executive board, my management, my friends, are so ethnically diverse.
Machine Gun Kelly
I've always been a fan of the Club C sneaker because it's super clean and timeless. It's one of those kicks that's been in the street scene forever - more than 30 years.
Machine Gun Kelly
I have so many accomplishments under my belt.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'm not one of those acts where it's, like, this mainstream person, where the average white kid at Harvard University is like, 'It's educational tonight. Let's all go out there and spend Dad's money.'
Machine Gun Kelly
When you look a certain way, or you have a certain presence, people take someone else's word over yours.
Machine Gun Kelly
Puff is more of a mentor rather than someone who's directly involved in my movement or helping me put my album together. It's not like me and him party together. He's definitely more of, like, a mentor.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'm here to make an impact on the kids who truly care.
Machine Gun Kelly
I was a huge punker growing up.
Machine Gun Kelly
It's an honor to step onstage and celebrate the service and sacrifices of our soldiers.
Machine Gun Kelly
Every time I've partnered with WWE, we've managed to pull off something extraordinary, but to be a part of the Tribute to the Troops special is definitely the highlight.
Machine Gun Kelly
I write all my hooks.
Machine Gun Kelly
It's awesome to have a brand like Reebok support what you stand for as well as your creative vision, and I'm excited to show you what a Reebok and Machine Gun Kelly collaboration is all about.
Machine Gun Kelly
I think couldn't not make a song called 'Wild Boy' and not be a wild boy.
Machine Gun Kelly
Economics runs the world.
Machine Gun Kelly
Cleveland, Ohio, is the real deal.
Machine Gun Kelly
I think me and Macklemore exist in two different worlds.
Machine Gun Kelly
You can't tell my fans that there's a better rapper than Machine Gun Kelly... Hands down, there's no way I'm not in the top five.
Machine Gun Kelly
Not everyone wants to be in misery in every song!
Machine Gun Kelly
Is there someone who can play guitar better than me technically? One hundred percent. But does anyone look better playing a guitar in my generation? Absolutely not.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'd say I did a lot of what I did with songs like 'At My Best' was because of the influence of my daughter.
Machine Gun Kelly
0I'm not that great of a speaker. I don't like watching my own interviews. I think I suck at talking, but one thing I can do is move my pen, and if that's how I gotta speak to my daughter, then let me do that.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'm not just a great white rapper. I'm a great rapper.
Machine Gun Kelly
Everything I stood for, forever, since the beginning of time, has been about seeing people as humans. Not as man, woman, white, Hispanic, any of that stuff.
Machine Gun Kelly
I don't believe in hopping from one social issue to the next to be a part of the movement for a moment. Anything I'm involved in is something that I would die for. I can't support things that don't feel genuine.
Machine Gun Kelly
I think I've watched and been around so many people that are of a high celebrity grade that I've attempted to soak in every kind of way to deal with fame.
Machine Gun Kelly
I knew so many people were coming up to me because they knew who I was, not because they were fans of my music. That bothered me because I don't want to be a celebrity; I want to be an artist.
Machine Gun Kelly
I've never been a bandwagon Clevelander. I've been talking about Cleveland and holding up Cleveland since before we were champions.
Machine Gun Kelly
There's something about America's sweetheart and America's bad boy. That juxtaposition is what everyone desires.
Machine Gun Kelly
The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.
Machine Gun Kelly
I want to keep the whole 'Lace Up' movement going. I want to take it national and international with a machine, a label.
Machine Gun Kelly
Every night, we put on shows that are deteriorating our bodies' life span... we don't do it for it all to be in vain.
Machine Gun Kelly
I think that me as a person, and as a personality, even my name alone, 'Machine Gun Kelly' - it is very loud, and it says a lot.
Machine Gun Kelly
I don't want to feel like the cool kid in the crowd who doesn't want to do what the artist's saying. I want to be so in awe of the artist that I'm literally jumping up and down, even if I've got on brand new Louboutins.
Machine Gun Kelly
I love looking at pictures of me in 2012-2017, because every single one of those Machine Gun Kellys looks different.
Machine Gun Kelly
With anything that happens in Cleveland, I always get involved.
Machine Gun Kelly
I was never supposed to get a record deal - that's one in a million.
Machine Gun Kelly
Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.
Machine Gun Kelly
I was picked on a lot as a kid because of the way I dressed. Metal and punk music got me through that. I know a lot of people don't understand it, but I love metal.
Machine Gun Kelly
I listened to Korn and Limp Bizkit and that whole era of heavy music.
Machine Gun Kelly
I've had more life experiences than most people that are older than me.
Machine Gun Kelly
My time on 'Roadies' gave me serenity and space.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'm known as a voice for a generation of people that don't have a voice.
Machine Gun Kelly
They always say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, but I say that about Cleveland.
Machine Gun Kelly
I sell out shows. My performance is top-tier.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'm a kid from Ohio in an industry that drives people insane.
Machine Gun Kelly
It seems like I'm one of those people that has the personality where, if I win an award, I wake up the next day, and I'm like 'Oh, but I didn't win this award though, or this didn't happen.'
Machine Gun Kelly
When I came into the industry, and as I continue to be in it, part of my authenticity is the fact that I speak my mind.
Machine Gun Kelly
My view on music and the way that it's portrayed is that it's a religion.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'm from Cleveland. I don't have any famous parents. I don't have any media training, I don't have a history in the industry to where I would have any preconceived notions of how I'm supposed to be.
Machine Gun Kelly
Doing 'Roadies' was a big release for me. I play this character named Wes who's the most pure, innocent form of who I was when I was eighteen searching for something.
Machine Gun Kelly
As I was coming up, there was so much naysaying, there was so much doubt, whether it was from my peers or people in the industry.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'm very personal with my music, and it takes a piece of your heart away every time you record that in the studio. So you only have so many pieces of your heart to give away.
Machine Gun Kelly
I think the artist community is very tight-knit.
Machine Gun Kelly
'Cleveland' went viral, but it didn't necessarily pop. I didn't have that support. I didn't have a deal when I made 'Cleveland' or anything like that.
Machine Gun Kelly
I recognize fans at every show.
Machine Gun Kelly
There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.
Machine Gun Kelly
There's blackballing involved with Machine Gun Kelly, a lot of confusion about who I am as an artist. But that's so small in the wake of someone like Nelson Mandela.
Machine Gun Kelly
I'm trying to be the Dr. Dre of Cleveland.
Machine Gun Kelly
I've become so much more comfortable divulging things I've never talked about before, honing in on certain relationships that everyone can relate to.
Machine Gun Kelly
To be considered for the hottest breakthrough MC of 2011, it's obviously an honor, but I want to be the hottest.
Machine Gun Kelly
Device makers, especially consumer-focused ones, have been the Achilles' heel of IoT security. These vendors have often viewed proper security implementations as extra cost, complexity, and time-to-market burdens with an unclear payoff.
Maciej Kranz
Attracting the next generation of IoT talent will take more than money - it's just as important to nurture a team-based culture of diversity and openness in which every voice is valued. This not only appeals to younger workers but also aligns with IoT's network character.
Maciej Kranz
I have long been an advocate of starting an IoT journey with a small, low-risk project that can produce immediate benefits. But don't confuse small with non-strategic. Align each project, no matter how small, into your larger strategic vision.
Maciej Kranz
Share your IoT experiences. Share your successes, best practices, and failures. We know that IoT doesn't work perfectly every time, but we can learn from each other's mistakes and vow not to repeat them.
Maciej Kranz
Like two sides of the same coin, you can't separate IoT from underlying business processes.
Maciej Kranz
The primary goal of IoT is to solve business problems, not to deliver a cool project or new technology. Focus on a business-relevant problem, and work with your customer to solve it.
Maciej Kranz
Traditionally, in the technology industry, companies need to re-invent themselves every 3-7 years to survive. If the company misses one transition, it can still recover, but if it misses two, it is usually fatal.
Maciej Kranz
Co-innovation between a startup and an enterprise works best when each party fills a gap in the other's capabilities and when they share equitably in both the work and the rewards.
Maciej Kranz
Lone wolves won't succeed with IoT. This is a team sport.
Maciej Kranz
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
Mack McLarty
I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.
Mack McLarty
True excellence is a product of synergy.
Mack Wilberg
Usually, all I want is peace and quiet when I'm driving home.
Mack Wilberg
From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't.
Mack Wilberg
Collaboration is an important part of the process, and ego is never a part of it.
Mack Wilberg
Our mandate is to sing for everyone. We don't just sing for one group or sing one genre... This is everybody's choir.
Mack Wilberg
The thing that's great about singing together is it's a great way of bringing people together.
Mack Wilberg
I think music - it sounds cliche, but music can be very healing.
Mack Wilberg
It's a great privilege and a highlight for choir and orchestra members to perform for audiences in live concerts.
Mack Wilberg
Sometimes I prefer when I can hear other people conduct my music so I can sit out and actually hear it. When you are in the middle of it, sometimes it's a little bit hard to hear and get the whole effect.
Mack Wilberg
I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.
Mack Wilberg
In the '70s and '80s, if you said you wrote for 'the people,' that meant you weren't any good. But I think that's changing.
Mack Wilberg
There are probably limits on what the choir can sing well.
Mack Wilberg
The choir tries to perform for everyone. It enables us to be very diversified with our audiences.
Mack Wilberg
The MTC is known for singing music by great master composers, hymns, American music, Broadway numbers, popular songs, and inspirational music. If the audience doesn't like one genre, they need only wait for the next number.
Mack Wilberg
I loved teaching and directing choral activities at BYU, but nothing surpasses working with the MTC musicians.
Mack Wilberg
A requiem is meant to bring comfort.
Mack Wilberg
I do think one of my strengths is the ability to adapt to whatever the situation is.
Mack Wilberg
Latin is beautiful and has become something of an international language, but there is also something about singing in your native language that has meaning.
Mack Wilberg
Even missionaries get discouraged at times.
Mack Wilberg
People love to hear the choir sing the hymns.
Mack Wilberg
We are always fortunate to have our own sound folks with us that do a great job in ensuring that everybody can hear and the sound is good.
Mack Wilberg
Of the music that we've done over the years, the things that are the most requested are the hymns. And folk music is also high on the list.
Mack Wilberg
As much sorrow and grief as came from 9/11, there have also come positives.
Mack Wilberg
There's something kind of wonderful about men singing lullabies.
Mack Wilberg
Men can be tender, too.
Mack Wilberg
Most of our American musical heritage is based on European models, but the folk hymns and spirituals are one of the most fertile and unique of our American musical traditions.
Mack Wilberg
The great folk hymns are a perfect marriage of text and tune. There are those that have nice messages and some with good music, but it is such a bonus when they are both wonderful.
Mack Wilberg
I don't know how to turn on a computer.
Mack Wilberg
Music has unique ways of speaking to the soul.
Mack Wilberg
Touring takes a lot of work, a lot of preparation.
Mack Wilberg
We always try to do something for everyone. Some want only hymns; some want music of the masters; some like popular favorites.
Mack Wilberg
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
Mackenzie Astin
I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
Mackenzie Astin
When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.
Mackenzie Astin
There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
Mackenzie Astin
I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
Mackenzie Astin
You never get every job you want.
Mackenzie Astin
And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
Mackenzie Astin
When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
Mackenzie Astin
It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.
Mackenzie Astin
I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
Mackenzie Astin
I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
Mackenzie Astin
Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
Mackenzie Astin
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
Mackenzie Astin
If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
Mackenzie Astin
There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
Mackenzie Astin
It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
Mackenzie Astin
I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
Mackenzie Astin
I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!
Mackenzie Crook
I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.
Mackenzie Crook
My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.
Mackenzie Crook
All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.
Mackenzie Crook
I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
Mackenzie Crook
I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!
Mackenzie Crook
I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
Mackenzie Crook
I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
Mackenzie Crook
I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
Mackenzie Crook
It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.
Mackenzie Crook
Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
Mackenzie Crook
I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
Mackenzie Davis
As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
Mackenzie Davis
I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.
Mackenzie Davis
I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
Mackenzie Davis
I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.
Mackenzie Davis
I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
Mackenzie Davis
I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.
Mackenzie Davis
Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
Mackenzie Davis
I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.
Mackenzie Davis
I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
Mackenzie Davis
I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.
Mackenzie Davis
I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks, and I would like to continue that streak.
Mackenzie Davis
I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
Mackenzie Davis
I think - more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.
Mackenzie Davis
I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
Mackenzie Davis
I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.
Mackenzie Davis
Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
Mackenzie Davis
I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
Mackenzie Davis
If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.
Mackenzie Davis
It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
Mackenzie Davis
I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
Mackenzie Davis
I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.
Mackenzie Davis
I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.
Mackenzie Davis
I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
Mackenzie Davis
I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
Mackenzie Davis
How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
Mackenzie Davis
I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
Mackenzie Davis
I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!
Mackenzie Davis
'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.
Mackenzie Davis
The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
Mackenzie Davis
I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.
Mackenzie Davis
I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can't engage in that kind of stuff because I'll never stop. So I no longer play any games.
Mackenzie Davis
I dream of not having access to technology. I think it's a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I'd do very well.
Mackenzie Davis
I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
Mackenzie Davis
It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
Mackenzie Foy
I have a cat and a dog. They don't really get along, but I think they get along when no one is looking.
Mackenzie Foy
I love doing stunts.
Mackenzie Foy
When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
Mackenzie Foy
I am dying to do an action movie. I can do my own stunts; I can do this.
Mackenzie Foy
I want to be acting until the day I die!
Mackenzie Foy
I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.
Mackenzie Foy
I like seeing girls throw down.
Mackenzie Foy
I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
Mackenzie Foy
I like action movies! Action movies are awesome.
Mackenzie Foy
I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.
Mackenzie Foy
I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
Mackenzie Foy
I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.
Mackenzie Foy
I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.
Mackenzie Foy
I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
Mackenzie Foy
I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
Mackenzie Foy
I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
Mackenzie Phillips
My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
Mackenzie Phillips
I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
Mackenzie Phillips
There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
Mackenzie Phillips
I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.
Mackenzie Phillips
Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
Mackenzie Phillips
By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
Mackenzie Phillips
I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
Mackenzie Rosman
I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
Mackenzie Rosman
I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
Mackenzie Rosman
It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
Mackenzie Rosman
I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
Mackenzie Rosman
I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
Mackenzie Rosman
I used to have a really big crush on Hayden Christensen.
Mackenzie Rosman
I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
Mackenzie Rosman
To me, watching your spouse, somebody that you love, have an adventure - what is better than that?
MacKenzie Scott
Writing is such a 'pretend' profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can't 'pretend' to be a lawyer or a teacher. It takes a lot of grit to continue.
MacKenzie Scott
I am a better person when I am writing, and I am probably a better mother because I can focus all that laser attention on these characters rather than worrying about my kids.
MacKenzie Scott
I think Amazon has been great for readers.
MacKenzie Scott
Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.
MacKenzie Scott
My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.
MacKenzie Scott
Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
Macklemore
Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
Macklemore
'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
Macklemore
Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
Macklemore
Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
Macklemore
Bullying is a national epidemic.
Macklemore
I'm as honest as I can be.
Macklemore
You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
Macklemore
I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
Macklemore
The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
Macklemore
The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
Macklemore
I got sober, and I got happy again.
Macklemore
I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.
Macklemore
The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
Macklemore
I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
Macklemore
'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.
Macklemore
It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
Macklemore
We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
Macklemore
Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
Macklemore
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
Macklemore
Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
Macklemore
I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
Macklemore
You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
Macklemore
I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
Macklemore
I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
Macklemore
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
Macklemore
The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?
Macklemore
I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful.
Macklemore
I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
Macklemore
When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
Macklemore
It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.
Macklemore
I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
Macklemore
I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
Macklemore
You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
Macklemore
Do you want to live life, or do you want to escape life?
Macklemore
My partner has to have good sized bones.
Macklemore
I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.
Macklemore
There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.
Macklemore
I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.↵Macklemore↵Thrift Week Five"
It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'↵Macklemore↵God Myself Day"
I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
Macklemore
I think people are enticed by indie rap and every time you have a group going against the grain, they're gonna be like, 'Wow, you did it yourself in 2012, that's impressive - how did you do it? What're you doing that's different? And how can I be a part of it?'
Macklemore
I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.
Macklemore
I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
Macklemore
I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
Macklemore
I'm a very conceptual writer.
Macklemore
When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
Macklemore
The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
Macklemore
The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
Macy Gray
I've never met anyone that is their image.
Macy Gray
I write in the studio.
Macy Gray
Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
Macy Gray
Being God would be the ultimate.
Macy Gray
I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
Macy Gray
I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
Macy Gray
Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
Macy Gray
You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
Macy Gray
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Religion is induced insanity.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
Madam C. J. Walker
There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.
Madam C. J. Walker
If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.
Madam C. J. Walker
This is the greatest country under the sun. But we must not let our love of country, our patriotic loyalty, cause us to abate one whit in our protest against wrong and injustice.
Madam C. J. Walker
I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.
Madam C. J. Walker
My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others.
Madam C. J. Walker
My advice to every one expecting to go into business is to hit often and hit hard; in other words, strike with all your might.
Madam C. J. Walker
I am not ashamed of my past; I am not ashamed of my humble beginnings.
Madam C. J. Walker
I have made it possible for many colored women to abandon the washtub for a more pleasant and profitable occupation.
Madam C. J. Walker
I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their appearance and to give their hair proper attention.
Madam C. J. Walker
I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations.
Madam C. J. Walker
I got my start by giving myself a start.
Madam C. J. Walker
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!
Madam C. J. Walker
Perseverance is my motto!
Madam C. J. Walker
I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life.
Madam C. J. Walker
The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.
Madam C. J. Walker
I feel that I am in a business that is a credit to the womanhood of our race.
Madam C. J. Walker
Don't think that because you have to go down in the wash-tub that you are any less a lady!
Madam C. J. Walker
Everybody told me I was making a mistake by going into this business, but I know how to grow hair as well as I know how to grow cotton.
Madam C. J. Walker
I have built my own factory on my own ground, 38 by 208 feet. I employ in that factory seven people, including a bookkeeper, a stenographer, a cook and a housegirl.↵Madam C. J. Walker↵Feet Own People"
I want to live to help my race.
Madam C. J. Walker
As I bent over the washboard and looked at my arms buried in soapsuds, I said to myself, 'What are you going to do when you grow old and your back gets stiff?' This set me to thinking, but with all my thinking I couldn't see how a poor washerwoman was going to better my condition.
Madam C. J. Walker
I have always held myself out as a hair culturist. I grow hair.
Madam C. J. Walker
In a dream, a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.
Madam C. J. Walker
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael
The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
Madame de Stael
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Madame de Stael
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de Stael
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Madame de Stael
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Madame de Stael
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Madame de Stael
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Madame de Stael
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Madame de Stael
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Madame de Stael
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de Stael
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de Stael
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame de Stael
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Madame de Stael
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Madame de Stael
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de Stael
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de Stael
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de Stael
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Madame de Stael
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
Madame de Stael
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Madame de Stael
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
Madame de Stael
Speech happens to not be his language.
Madame de Stael
You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
Madchen Amick
The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their rights. The whole concept of witchcraft came into play to hold down women and women's empowerment.
Madchen Amick
Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
Madchen Amick
I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
Madchen Amick
My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
Madchen Amick
For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
Madchen Amick
The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and patience.
Madchen Amick
That was the beauty of 'Twin Peaks.' The young people had just as deep of storylines as the older generation in town.
Madchen Amick
Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'
Madchen Amick
It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
Madchen Amick
Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!
Madchen Amick
'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
Madchen Amick
'Twin Peaks' was incredibly slow, methodic, taking shots that were uncomfortably long, with a lot of scenes where there was barely any dialogue. 'Riverdale' has a much faster pace.
Madchen Amick
'Witches of East End' is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But 'Twin Peaks' still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we'll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!
Madchen Amick
Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
Madchen Amick
I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
Madchen Amick
I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
Madchen Amick
I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
Madchen Amick
I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.
Madchen Amick
I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
Madchen Amick
I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
Madchen Amick
I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
Madchen Amick
In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.
Madchen Amick
It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
Madchen Amick
When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
Madchen Amick
I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
Madchen Amick
I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.
Madchen Amick
I've paid my dues. It wasn't overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and auditions... But I've got to give luck some credit.
Madchen Amick
It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
Madchen Amick
Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
Madchen Amick
My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
Madchen Amick
I'm representing the single women out there, dating around, trying to find the right guy who respects you and appreciates you. Maybe I'll settle down somewhere. Gotta keep looking.
Madchen Amick
People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
Madchen Amick
It's just unfortunate that a network only makes their profit off of live viewership because their hands are tied by advertisers. They may believe in the show and want it to continue, but they just unfortunately can't afford it.
Madchen Amick
Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
Madchen Amick
When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
Madchen Amick
It's amazing that we have lead females on television and a couple of them over 40. Thank you very much. And being beautiful and strong and sexy and everything that you hope for.
Madchen Amick
I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
Madchen Amick
It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers, producers, and directors pay attention to it.
Madchen Amick
I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
Madchen Amick
I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.
Madchen Amick
I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
Madchen Amick
Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
Madchen Amick
I have a good relationship with Lifetime.
Madchen Amick
I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
Madchen Amick
The most common thing over the years is, 'What's it like to work with David Lynch?' That's absolutely the fascination, whether it's people that are in the industry or it's just diehard fans. Because he's our modern-day master. We're lucky enough to be alive at the time that an absolute master and genius is working.
Madchen Amick
We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
Madchen Amick
If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
Maddie Hasson
I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
Maddie Hasson
I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
Maddie Hasson
I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
Maddie Hasson
I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!
Maddie Hasson
I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
Maddie Hasson
I love being around my mom and my dad.
Maddie Hasson
I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
Maddie Hasson
If your political views define who you are as a human, and you can't stand to have friends that have different views than you, than you need to reevaluate, my friend.
Maddie Marlo
Country fans can sniff out phony from a mile away.
Maddie Marlow
We have more to offer than just looking good.
Maddie Marlow
I grew up fishing, but I'm actually a bigger hunter than I am a fisher.
Maddie Marlow
The center stone on my ring is the diamond from my mom's original engagement ring. My parents have been married 25 years! My dad bought her a new ring a while back, so she kept her original diamond to pass down to me or my sister someday. It is so special having an heirloom ring because I will get to pass it down one day, too.
Maddie Marlow
'Conservative' is a term that resonates differently with people. For us, Tae and I take that as being modest. The easiest way to put it is, if there's a little girl in the audience, and she's looking at us, I want her parents to feel comfortable with her admiring us and looking up to us.
Maddie Marlow
Being a young woman, fashion is super important, and it's just fun.
Maddie Marlow
To tie in the whole Christianity aspect, as Christians, we're taught our whole lives to love people no matter what, and in country music, that's okay; that's something that's accepted. That's why it's a great genre for us, because we can speak about all kinds of different things.
Maddie Marlow
Radio Disney is the greatest. As a place where young people can come together, have a place to hear music that doesn't think about genre or whatever, it's an amazing place to have a home!
Maddie Marlow
'Girl In A Country Song' is basically a song about what it's like to be the girl in modern day country songs and how hard it is to be this perfect Barbie doll girl that we are portrayed as.
Maddie Marlow
We left our homes and moved to Nashville as teenagers, and suddenly, we were on our own. We knew all we wanted to do in the world was write and sing... and the only way that would happen would be to jump, but you still get scared or sure you've done a dumb thing.
Maddie Marlow
There's a point where you're going after something so wholeheartedly that you start getting discouraged when there's no results or when no one's taking interest.
Maddie Marlow
With 'Sierra,' this mean girl had all these kids bullying me - and I wrote the first verse and chorus the night before Tae and I came to Nashville.
Maddie Marlow
At 15 we were going back and forth to Nashville every weekend while we were still going to school.
Maddie Marlow
It's nice knowing we're putting the banjo, the fiddle, the steel, and the mandolin back out front.
Maddie Marlow
We believe that with our music, we should be saying exactly what we think. We want to speak up for people who don't have a voice. That's what our music does.
Maddie Marlow
I have a really weird thing with my dreams. I've had vivid dreams in the past that actually came true days after the dream.
Maddie Marlow
We just feel so blessed, like God picked us two goobers to do this crazy thing and speak up for people that don't have a voice and give them something to hang onto. If we've done that for one person, I think we've done our job.
Maddie Marlow
I've gotten a lot better with accepting change, because I used to want a consistent schedule.
Maddie Marlow
Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
Maddie Marlow
When I go home to Texas and get recognized a lot, that can be weird.
Maddie Marlow
I truly look in the mirror and love who I am today because of the pain that I had to go through to get here.
Maddie Marlow
I'm not going to allow my trials to defeat me, I'm going to let them build me up and learn from them and take as much wisdom as I can from each trial.
Maddie Marlow
The biggest lesson I learned in 2017 is do the best with what you have with where you are.
Maddie Marlow
Just because someone has a different political view or opinion than you doesn't make them a bad person.
Maddie Marlow
It's our job as followers of Christ to love our brothers and sisters even if they are different than us!
Maddie Marlow
Would Jesus be bashing people for thinking differently than you even if you think it's wrong? Nope. He would be loving on everyone.
Maddie Marlow
Being bold and standing our ground is important, and making sure you don't allow people to run all over you.
Maddie Marlow
I will say, as southern women, there is a southern way of life that inspires a lot of music. I can see why that's a common thread through music, but the best part about country is it's about real life. It's not about this glamorous Lamborghini, walking around with gold necklaces, all that stuff.
Maddie Marlow
We've always been huge fans of the Dixie Chicks. They talked about subject matter that people didn't necessarily want to talk about and made people pay attention to issues.
Maddie Marlow
Music is obviously our No. 1, always. But it's so fun to venture out to another creative outlet.
Maddie Marlow
Some people forget that when you are collaborating, you aren't always right. So you have to be open-minded and have to remember there are two minds creating. So you have to respect the other person.
Maddie Marlow
It's a spiritual experience on stage almost every night. Especially, with the song 'Fly.' We were so inspired to write this song and just to hear people's stories and how it's impacted them.
Maddie Marlow
I remember being in high school and trying to absorb the knowledge that people in the public eye had to give.
Maddie Marlow
We hadn't met anyone else as ambitious as us. We immediately recognized each other's drive.
Maddie Marlow
I love country music because it's honest - and I'm a terrible liar.
Maddie Marlow
For three months, we kept going into these writing sessions going, 'Man, I just heard this song on the radio, and it told me to slide my sugar shaker over.' If any guy spoke to us the way those country songs spoke to women, it would not be good for that guy. I would probably punch him in the face.
Maddie Marlow
We were so fed up with how we had to be the stereotypical girl who looks perfect in the music video: she's coming out of the water in a bikini with her long tan legs. Not all of us are that girl.
Maddie Marlow
We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
Maddie Marlow
Every song means something. Every song tells one of our stories, or a story together.
Maddie Marlow
We have people come up to us all the time in meet-and-greets saying, 'Thank you so much for writing that, because I went through a similar situation, and that song lifted my spirit and gave me the confidence that I needed.'
Maddie Marlow
We're not doing anything vicious or doing anything hateful. All we're doing is writing music that's our truth. I don't think there's any karma for that.
Maddie Marlow
We grew up fishing, and we take it seriously.
Maddie Marlow
The fact that we're young females and our voices are being heard loud and clear is really, really special to both of us.
Maddie Marlow
We wrote every single song, and they're all true stories. Some people don't believe us, but they are.
Maddie Marlow
It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
Maddie Marlow
We poured our whole hearts into 'Start Here,' and I cannot wait to just show our fans the whole Maddie & Tae spiel.
Maddie Marlow
Dann Huff is amazing and so patient.
Maddie Marlow
It's such a fun experience getting to kind of create something from nothing with your best friend.
Maddie Marlow
We are serious about our fishing, and that's why, when we take guys fishing, and they aren't being serious about it, we kick them to the curb.
Maddie Marlow
What's an opening night without forgetting some lyrics?
Maddie Marlow
'Fly' really is the polar opposite of 'Girl in a Country Song.'
Maddie Marlow
With our music, we don't want to just do one thing. We want to show all these different sides of us and all the different influences that we have.
Maddie Marlow
We wrote 'Fly' in such a vulnerable place where we weren't sure if we had what it took or we would ever make it. Now to have that song on country radio and have our fans singing it back is just wild, because we remember that exact moment, feeling that way.
Maddie Marlow
Tae loves color, and I'm more into jeans. We like to think we're bohemian chic.
Maddie Marlow
We're acoustically driven, and there's no doubt we're country.
Maddie Marlow
There's an honesty in our lyrics, and that will never change.
Maddie Marlow
I love American Eagle's jeans; they fit me just right.
Maddie Marlow
How many days did I look out the window and want to run home because the world was so big and things were going wrong? But I also knew if I ran away, my dream would never happen.
Maddie Marlow
We hope, for anyone else trying to make a dream come true, they can find the faith to keep going in 'Fly' when they're about to give up.
Maddie Marlow
Dreams only happen if you go out to get them.
Maddie Marlow
You have this fairy tale of 'life on your own.' It's so awesome. Until the apartment floods, or something happens, and your go-to people aren't there.
Maddie Marlow
Music can change everything for you if it's honest and strikes a note inside.
Maddie Marlow
I'd love for us to be on our way to having a career like Reba McEntire or Shania Twain; to be Entertainer of the Year, to have headlined big tours, and really be women when we're doing it.
Maddie Marlow
We've been blessed with an incredible team behind us - Scott Borchetta and everybody at Dot Records. They're not afraid of taking chances, and we aren't either, so it is the dream team we've got behind us.
Maddie Marlow
For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
Maddie Marlow
Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
Maddie Marlow
Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
Maddie Marlow
When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like 'Oh my gosh! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'
Maddie Marlow
I think, us ladies, we are complicated creatures.
Maddie Marlow
There are those songs that hit you in the gut - when you're the one performing it and you see the effect it has on people, there's something so powerful in that.
Maddie Marlow
With everything that Tae and I do, we want to make sure it's true and honest to who we are as people and artists.
Maddie Marlow
Being a member of the Grand Ole Opry and headlining a tour would be our two things that we'd love to accomplish at some point.
Maddie Marlow
We have made such great friends at country radio. I think they love the honesty of 'Fly' and how raw and vulnerable it is.
Maddie Marlow
'Girl In A Country Song' was uptempo, rockin', and such a bold song.
Maddie Marlow
People forget how great country music is, and we haven't.
Maddie Marlow
We are not going to release an album that we don't believe in.
Maddie Marlow
I wish for other people because I already have all my wishes.
Maddie Marlow
0I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.↵Maddie Ziegler↵Age Mom Me"
I dance. I don't really do anything else.
Maddie Ziegler
I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.
Maddie Ziegler
I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.
Maddie Ziegler
I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
Maddie Ziegler
Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.
Maddie Ziegler
I met Drew Barrymore, and she was so cool. She told me, 'I know I just had my baby three weeks ago, and that's why I'm emotional, but I cried when you performed.' And then she pulled out a tissue and said, 'Look, I was sobbing.'
Maddie Ziegler
I'm a beauty guru, I just love all of that stuff. We have a makeup artist for 'Dance Moms' that touches us up and stuff, but I love doing my own makeup; sometimes I do my friends', too. My favorite is doing eye shadow and eyeliner.
Maddie Ziegler
I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn't want me to drink Sprite because it's unhealthy. So she always has me drink water, but it's hard not to!
Maddie Ziegler
Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
Maddie Ziegler
I usually get home from dance at 10 every night, and I'll watch TV for about 30 minutes, and then I'll go to bed.
Maddie Ziegler
When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'
Maddie Ziegler
I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.
Maddie Ziegler
It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.↵Maddie Ziegler↵Reality Drama Hard"
I love tap!
Maddie Ziegler
You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.
Maddie Ziegler
I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
Maddie Ziegler
I never knew that I would be performing on talk shows with Sia.
Maddie Ziegler
I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
Maddie Ziegler
I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
Maddie Ziegler
All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.
Maddie Ziegler
I love doing hair and makeup and making 'Video Star' videos with my friend, Kendall. I also love to draw. But my life is dance, dance and more dance. I wouldn't want it any other way.
Maddie Ziegler
I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
Maddie Ziegler
I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
Maddie Ziegler
I just want to stay professional.
Maddie Ziegler
On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
Maddie Ziegler
I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
Maddie Ziegler
My favourite TV show is 'Pretty Little Liars,' and I actually made a guest appearance on it. I didn't really have lines for my character, but I definitely want to get more into those kinds of shows.
Maddie Ziegler
I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.
Maddie Ziegler
Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.
Maddie Ziegler
I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.
Maddie Ziegler
I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
Maddie Ziegler
With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
Maddie Ziegler
I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.
Maddie Ziegler
For filming, we have to wear a lot more makeup than we usually would. At night, I have to go home and take off all the makeup and take my hair out from my bun and just get out of the dancewear and everything.
Maddie Ziegler
I definitely like wearing leotards.
Maddie Ziegler
When I'm not dancing, I usually just like to keep it comfy. Even if I'm just going to dinner, I'll wear jeans or something, but if I'm not dancing, I usually just have a comfy outfit on.
Maddie Ziegler
Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
Maddie Ziegler
I don't want to be known as just a 'Dance Moms' competitor. I'd really like to be known for all of Sia's work, too.
Maddie Ziegler
I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.
Maddie Ziegler
My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
Maddie Ziegler
I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
J Allard
Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
J Allard
When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.
J Allard
We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team
J Allard
Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
J Allard
We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.
J Allard
The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
J Allard
Glasses, earrings, rings, sneakers. I love every little accessory.
J Balvin
It's all about the vibes. That's why it's called 'Vibras' in Spanish.
J Balvin
I have always been a big fan of watches.
J Balvin
I enjoy everything I do, from music to fashion or to watches - the lifestyle.
J Balvin
I'm just a regular guy trying to make my dream come true like everybody else.
J Balvin
As long as I keep it real, I learn something from everyone. And when you view yourself as a student and not as somebody who's bigger, there is still learning that can be done every day, and that keeps you open-minded and more ready to learn about life and love.
J Balvin
When I would go to the barrio, people saw me as a rich person, but when I'm around rich people, they see me as someone from the ghetto. It's all perceptions. I like moving between worlds. I feel equally comfortable in both.
J Balvin
Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.
J Balvin
I want to change the perception about Latinos worldwide. I think people don't know yet how cool we are.
J Balvin
If you really want to flex, you have to be real.
J Balvin
I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.
J Balvin
11I see myself like what Drake did in the game. I came with melodies and different lyrics, from a different place - reggaeton is from Puerto Rico; Drake is from Canada.
J Balvin
To tell you the truth, I used an Instagram filter called Ginza to share a snippet of the song - I simply left the name in the caption in case anyone wanted to use the same filter. But everyone started calling the song 'Ginza.'
J Balvin
I don't plan anything - I just let myself go with the flow.
J Balvin
I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences... be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.
J Balvin
When you maintain a closeness with your fans, they are more forgiving when you make mistakes.
J Balvin
I'm not a big fan of fame; I'm a big fan of success.
J Balvin
By erasing barriers of races, colors, continents, genres, or languages, we can achieve the whole world moving their head to the same beat.
J Balvin
My medium is music, but my goal is to motivate people to dream.
J Balvin
I don't pretend to be anybody else but me.
J Balvin
Music goes further than any border, any language.
J Balvin
'Mi Gente' is a song that embodies a special moment in music - a new sound of a Latino culture on the rise and being embraced globally.
J Balvin
Watches are about status.
J Balvin
For 10 years, I was my own label, my own promoter, my own PR. We borrowed money to print our CDs.
J Balvin
I believe that we are a result of our past.
J Balvin
Even though you don't understand what I'm saying, you are going to really feel it. The same thing happened to me when I used to listen to English music. I didn't even understand one word. You know? But it just makes me feel great.
J Balvin
I'm so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.
J Balvin
Just because you are Latino does not mean you can't be global.
J Balvin
I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.
J Balvin
Colombian culture has a lot of music - it's in our blood; it's in our DNA.
J Balvin
I'm no savior, and I'm no Robin Hood.
J Balvin
To me, family is first.
J Balvin
I like track suits and sometimes to be suited up. I like to be like a chameleon.
J Balvin
I'd love to work with people like Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, and The Weeknd.
J Balvin
Camila Cabello, she's great.
J Balvin
There are so many artists that have inspired me.
J Balvin
We are proving that Latinos have the power to connect with an audience on a global level without having to leave our identity behind.
J Balvin
When you see a movie, they always put the Latino on the bad side or in a tacky way. It's not like that. Latinos are shining like a diamond.
J Balvin
In life, you always have to keep fighting. It's not easy.
J Balvin
In 2017, it's discouraging that it seems like we're going backward. And that's not just because of Trump; that's because we, as humans, condone discrimination; it's a human issue. It's part of something bigger.
J Balvin
The important thing is that I'm clear about the love and respect that I got for Rihanna.
J Balvin
I respect the ones who make it and leave their home base, but I'm good in Colombia.
J Balvin
Basically, I just want to talk about love and how it can overcome boundaries. I want to discuss those more universal beliefs, not more politicized ideas.
J Balvin
As Latinos, we are many, and our geography is gigantic.
J Balvin
Mexico is a Latin powerhouse. And Mexicans, they're known as hard workers. Here in the U.S., not everybody wants to do those kinds of jobs. I've lived. I know what it feels like and what they go through and how families suffer.
J Balvin
I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I'm doing. And I want mainstream artists to respect me and accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English. I want them to know that I can compete globally, with whomever, in Spanish.
J Balvin
I'd want to start being a creative director of a specific line, like Adidas, for example. If they called me up to collaborate on something, I would do it.
J Balvin
I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country! I don't need to live somewhere else.
J Balvin
I don't know. I respect Kanye, but when it comes to Trump, I'm not into that, man.
J Balvin
I want to take it really far in Spanish; even non-Spanish speakers listen to my music across the world. Even though they don't know what I'm saying, they really feel it. We want to take it to another level and keep building our name. We want to take it really far just in Spanish.
J Balvin
Pitbull has always been great - he represents Latinos.
J Balvin
Every performance has provided a learning experience, and as we go, we keep fine-tuning the shows. If we decide to do a tour, we rehearse until we perfect. One thing that I do prior to every show is that we huddle the band and pray. We thank more than we ask.
J Balvin
I've always loved music since I was a little kid.
J Balvin
When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.
J Balvin
I want to inspire people to follow their own dream, not what the world wants for them.
J Balvin
'Donde Estaras,' it is like a classic reggaeton, and we just added some Southern spice to bring it to 2018. But I wanted to go back to the roots of reggaeton, that type of reggaeton that makes you just feel good. You don't know what we are saying but that OK because 'Donde Estas' is where are you at but 'Donde Estaras' is where are you going to be.
J Balvin
Kanye and Pharrell are in fashion. Why not J Balvin?
J Balvin
I love Bad Bunny. He's changing the game. I think he's doing something very important with his success.
J Balvin
Who would have thought that somebody Latino was going to be singing with Beyonce at Coachella? Years ago? Nobody. But I did believe in me. So, that's what I want to do: keep inspiring people as much as possible.
J Balvin
We proved to the world that a completely Spanish song can take over the world.
J Balvin
There's always going to be somebody that don't like you. It's life.
J Balvin
To be a legend, we have to make a lot of right moves and great music.
J Balvin
I love Rihanna, but I'm not gonna marry Rihanna.
J Balvin
I want mainstream artists to accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English.
J Balvin
I want to make music for everybody.
J Balvin
I don't have to work with superstars - I want to work with cool artists that make super music.
J Balvin
Dreams are the ones that really keep me moving all the time. That's what drives me.
J Balvin
I just work with people that I love and respect, that inspire me to be a better person, a better artist.
J Balvin
Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.
J Balvin
I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.
J Balvin
I just want people to respect what I do.
J Balvin
Behind every big artist, there's a big team.
J Balvin
I like to make super music instead of working with superstars.
J Balvin
Politics doesn't interest me in the least.
J Balvin
You can have the power of your music on your cellphone and reach millions.
J Balvin
A watch shows how you want to look - or how you want people to look at you.
J Balvin
Music is art, and making watches is art, too.
J Balvin
Let's be honest, 'Ginza' doesn't really have lyrics to speak of. It's a party track - a party for reggaetoneros to come out of the closet.
J Balvin
I am a YouTube artist.
J Balvin
I love the vibe of Las Vegas.
J Balvin
I'm honored and thankful to be partnering with the prestigious CFDA as one of the men's wear ambassadors for fashion week. My interest in fashion is only matched by my love for music, and I'm blessed to be given an opportunity to learn about some of my favorite designers from a firsthand look at their latest collections.
J Balvin
I think music is to have fun. It's for people to have a good time with.
J Balvin
We are making music for the human race, and even beings from other galaxies are welcome to vibe with us.
J Balvin
I pay a lot of attention to the people I let surround me. I learn something from those people and from everyone - from other musicians, from people on the street.
J Balvin
t's always been my dream to be among the big names of Colombia.
J Balvin
I'm still in love with New York. It's like a dream: there's so much to do, so much culture.
J Balvin
The only way I'm not going to follow other people in reggaeton is if I listen to other things. I get other melodies or sounds and put them in reggaeton and make it different.
J Balvin
I like to change and switch it up. I don't want to sound like anybody else or sound the same. I always have to reinvent myself.J BalvinChange Myself Always
Winning a Grammy is always going to be good.
J Balvin
Steve Aoki is somebody I really love, and he did a remix of 'Mi Gente,' too.
J Balvin
30Part of what we did is change that misconception that reggaeton is machista and misogynist. On the contrary, women are our biggest fans, and they inspire us.
J Balvin
Mike Amiri is like my brother.
J Balvin
We want to change to point of view about Latinos in the world and Colombians. Forget about the bad past.
J Balvin
I think the universe works perfectly.
J Balvin
I think it's important to show people, especially young people, that it's okay to have a personality. And that they can express themselves however they like.
J Balvin
I obviously work really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really big and have the discipline to materialize those dreams.
J Balvin
Reggaeton is what opened the doors for me, and I'm always grateful for that. I'll do reggaeton for life, but I want to show that I'm an artist who can do everything.
J Balvin
The more I get to know more artists, the more they inspire me.
J Balvin
I don't want to make music only for Latinos. The idea is always to make a global sound.
J Balvin
Music is one way of expressing yourself, and fashion is another.
J Balvin
I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'
J Dilla
One of my favourite Donald Byrd tracks is 'Think Twice,' and I didn't want to sample it. I've always enjoyed when other people have sampled it, so I wanted to instead of making a beat with it or something like that, or freak the beat of whatever. I wanted to just recreate it in my own way, like how I heard it.
J Dilla
No one will ever be able to come against me on the beats.
J Dilla
There'd be days when I wouldn't eat at all because I'd be in the basement working all day.
J Dilla
It's family first, and then everything else.
J Dilla
What happened was that the doctor told me that I'd ruptured my kidney from being too busy and being stressed out and not eating right.
J Dilla
Detroit is a hard city.
J Dilla
To me now, I don't really categorize music - I see music as all one.
J Hus
In year 10 or 11, I used to buy packs of doughnuts for 50p from Morrisons, and sell them for 50p each. I made loads of money. So I was a doughnut hustler!
J Hus
I was a bit of a hothead. But I've changed my ways now. My bad years were probably from 2009 to 2014.
J Hus
I don't think anyone can do what I already do. I just do it and it's unique, yeah.
J Hus
I think I make ugly sexy and attractive. If I didn't do music, the girls that like me wouldn't like me, but I think I make ugly look good.
J Hus
I think people can learn from my experiences, and I hope people can look at me and be inspired.
J Hus
The women are my biggest supporters so I have to make good music for them too. Afrobeats is also often always about sexy women; we are simply celebrating the female form.
J Hus
I feel like I'm bipolar. I have my different moods and that. That's why my music exists in so many different worlds - this moment I'm feeling all raw, this moment I'm wanting to talk to a girl, the next moment I'm wanting to talk about spirit and be deep. Then I'm back to being angry.
J Hus
I wanted to be an actor.
J Hus
I'm a Gemini, so my mood always changes - one minute I'm dance-dancey, the next I'm in the corner minding my own business
J Hus
My friends used to call me ugly. Even my mum would say it.
J Hus
I don't like to believe in star signs and all of that stuff.
J Hus
Being ugly didn't offend me. It's like: Yeah, I'm ugly. What? Make me ugly-sexy. Embrace it.
J Hus
'Cause it's jail, everyone thinks they're bad. So this one guy was like, 'What're you gonna do, 'Lean and Bop' for us?' I was cocky, I was like 'Oh yeah? It costs five racks to see me lean and bop, It costs five racks to see me lean and bop.' But deep down inside it was hurting. It's moments like that make me hate - I feel like I sold out.
J Hus
My little brother is four years old and he listens to all my music. I don't know how he finds it, but he knows how to use an iPad and he's always online. So one day my mum said: 'You know what, you have to make something for your little brother,' and that's how I made 'Lean & Bop.'
J Hus
My mum used to play afrobeats, my dad used to play Caribbean, my sisters and brothers played hip-hop.
J Hus
Jhene Aiko, I like Zara Larsson, I like working with female artists.
J Hus
People always say I'm shy! But I'm not even shy! Like, if you knew what I'm saying in my brain. I'm in my own mind a lot. Even though I'm quiet I'm thinking about a lot of things.
J Hus
I was feeling 'Lean & Bop' in the moment. It's brought me the most money. And when I'm doing shows, it goes off.
J Hus
People are always surprised when they meet me. I was in Nigeria and I went to one of the radio stations and they were like, 'Aww you look cute!' They were expecting me to look more rough, and I was like: 'Yeah, I'm polite!'
J Hus
I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It's good to mix it up, but I'm still gonna stay true to rapping.
J Hus
I've had a million hats - snapbacks or whatever. I'm really into hats.
J Hus
I'm just gonna be more weird and unique as possible.
J Hus
I like to say there's no natural genre to my music.
J Hus
I don't like to be put into a box. I don't wanna be given a title - nothing.
J Hus
One of my biggest influences is Fela Kuti.
J Hus
I put my mum through a lot of stress; police would be coming to the house... It just seemed normal to me, to be up to no good; it's what everyone did. But then you start to see friends dying and going to prison and suddenly it's not fun anymore.
J Hus
Prison, I don't want to go back there again.
J Hus
People look at kids like us and think we have no morals because we're from 'the street.' I want to show that we do live by certain standards, that we are moral people.
J Hus
My absolute earliest influences would be people like Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Outkast, 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' era 50 cent.
J Hus
There isn't a Skepta song I don't know.
J Hus
Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret.
J Hus
When I was growing up in my area, the worst problem for us was we never had a purpose, I'd just be looking for stuff to do, I would be bored, that's how we would get into trouble.
J Hus
Even with me going to prison, it could have put a bad stigma on my name. But you keep going. When people see you in a low situation, when people see you fight, they respect you for it.
J Hus
I'm not really good at talking.
J Hus
It's just common sense that everyone should be listening to J Hus.
J Hus
Everyone sounds like me now. But they know who they are. It's a game changer. I started this sound, I'm the head of it. You can do it, but I'll do it better.
J Hus
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J Mascis
I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
J Mascis
I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.
J Mascis
When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
J Mascis
Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
J Mascis
I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J Mascis
Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
J Mascis
I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.
J Mascis
I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.
J Mascis
You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
J Mascis
I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
J Mascis
All labels are offensive in some way.
J Mascis
People have to do what they want to do.
J Mascis
It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
J Mascis
I've never liked rehearsing too much.
J Mascis
It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.
J Mascis
'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J Mascis
I think electricity will create a new world. I feel like the world will change a lot with electricity, and I wonder how it will change, it's scary, and it's going to be fun. I think there are so many things to think about when it comes to electric cars.
J-Hope
We have reached milestones that are far beyond what I expected.
J-Hope
We set out with nothing but music as our dream, but we didn't know where we were going, whether we were going uphill or downhill, or as we took a break after becoming tired, whether around the corner there was a paradise or a pitfall. That's how we started.
J-Hope
Do what you want to try doing. Take whatever you get out of it and have fun.
J-Hope
I put 'hope' in my name to be a hopeful existence in the group.
J-Hope
We are happy that we could resonate with so many people.
J-Hope
We want to keep doing our own music and show our own colors.
J-Hope
We deliver many different messages to people of our generation. I want them to get good energy by listening to BTS music.
J-Hope
The music helped me sympathize with our young generation and also empathize with them. I'd like to create and write more music that represents them.
J-Hope
We're proud that everything we do is giving off light.
J-Hope
I think I just laugh nonstop. I think my laughter naturally melts in when I want to recharge.
J-Hope
We started out because we love music and dancing.
J-Hope
When I hear the word electric, I think of Pikachu!
J-Hope
We Are Bulletproof: The Eternal' demonstrates that we will keep going despite the difficulties. It reveals our ego.
J-Hope
We will try to make the name BTS sound as cool as The Beatles.J-HopeCool Try Will
I love my life!
J-Hope
It feels as if the world has acknowledged and accepted our sincerity.
J-Hope
I don't think you should feel too pressured about a mixtape. Just do what you want to do and show the music you want to show. You're not trying to win something big with it.
J-Hope
The singing in 'Dynamite,' it wasn't easy because the song is high-pitched.
J-Hope
Louder Than Bombs' shows our inner shadows.
J-Hope
I remember being captivated by Jules Verne's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' when I read it as a kid.
J-Hope
I actually don't preoccupy myself with 'I'm going to do this kind of rap in this kind of genre' kind of thinking when I work.
J-Hope
If we think something is not good, we'll openly say it. If there's choreography, for example, and it feels like it's going to be too taxing on our physical resources - as I said, we're not getting any younger - we'll say so, and then we'll make those changes.
J-Hope
It's the encouragement from fans that drove us and allowed BTS to become who we are.
J-Hope
I feel we have achieved the goals that we set out to achieve.
J-Hope
I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.
J-Hope
It's such a great honor to be mentioned along The Beatles.
J-Hope
I felt that group vocals for 'Airplane' coming from all the BTS members who've been together through this journey would create an even more heartfelt song.
J-Hope
When I was a little boy, my wish was to be on an airplane. My wish was to get on a plane and fly to the sky.
J-Hope
When I was a little kid, I simply loved music and enjoyed expressing myself with my body.
J-Hope
My fantasy had always been making a music video and performing with music that I had created.
J-Hope
We've matured musically, as well as in the way we think. We've also developed a higher sense of responsibility. This has refined us and these developments are really being reflected in our music and our dance.
J-Hope
Everyone liked me when I went up on the stage at a talent search in elementary school, and that's when I decided to become a music artist.
J-Hope
The way I work uses a very on-the-spot flow, and I write the lyrics and the music when I feel them coming.
J-Hope
We're working out, watching Netflix and learning to play instruments. I think we're doing a lot of self-development, and also just trying to stay active.
J-Hope
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
J. A. Jance
I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
J. A. Jance
I play golf - badly.
J. A. Jance
I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
J. A. Konrath
A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.
J. A. Konrath
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath
Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
J. A. Konrath
I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.
J. A. Konrath
I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
J. A. Konrath
I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
J. A. Konrath
We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
J. A. Konrath
Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.
J. A. Konrath
Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
J. A. Konrath
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
J. A. Konrath
Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
J. A. Konrath
I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.
J. A. Konrath
I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.
J. A. Konrath
I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.
J. A. Konrath
15The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.
J. A. Konrath
I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
J. A. Konrath
Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.
J. A. Konrath
When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
J. A. Konrath
E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button.
J. A. Konrath
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
J. A. Konrath
My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.
J. A. Konrath
We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.
J. A. Konrath
It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
J. A. Konrath
I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J. A. Konrath
Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
J. A. Konrath
No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
J. A. Konrath
Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.
J. A. Konrath
My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.
J. A. Konrath
I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
J. A. Konrath
If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider it. But anything less than that, I'm sure I can do better on my own.
J. A. Konrath
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
J. Anthony Lukas
The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.
J. Anthony Lukas
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
J. Anthony Lukas
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
J. Anthony Lukas
The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.
J. Anthony Lukas
Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
J. Anthony Lukas
Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
J. August Richards
1In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.
J. August Richards
I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore - she teaches me to dance.
J. August Richards
Marvel makes you feel like 'Iron Man' will show up at your front door to kill you if you say the wrong thing.
J. August Richards
I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
J. August Richards
I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
J. August Richards
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
J. August Richards
Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.
J. August Richards
I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.
J. August Richards
When we wrapped 'Angel,' I definitely had a moment where I thought, 'Wow, that was the best job I'm ever gonna have.'
J. August Richards
When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.
J. August Richards
To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
J. August Richards
I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found 'Deathlok,' read about him there.
J. August Richards
I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
J. August Richards
I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'
J. August Richards
Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
J. August Richards
Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
J. August Richards
Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
J. August Richards
I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
J. August Richards
I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.
J. August Richards
I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.
J. August Richards
The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
J. August Richards
Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
J. August Richards
As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
J. August Richards
I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
J. August Richards
I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
J. August Richards
I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
J. August Richards
I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.
J. August Richards
I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
J. August Richards
Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
J. August Richards
Their crew for 'Arrow' is just one of the most wonderful crews that I've worked with. I know that actors say that all the time, and it sounds like trash coming out of my own mouth, but it's so true.
J. August Richards
The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
J. August Richards
The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
J. August Richards
Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
J. August Richards
Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and throwing yourself fully into going after what the character wants.
J. August Richards
I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
J. August Richards
I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.
J. August Richards
My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
J. August Richards
Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.
J. B. Bickerstaff
When you want to win, and you want to go to work every day, you want to work with high character people; you want to work with classy people.
J. B. Bickerstaff
If you look at the teams that mix and match their starting lineup a great deal, that sort of inconsistency frequently leads to inconsistency in performance.
J. B. Bickerstaff
My brother and I used to laugh and say, 'Normal kids went to day care, and we went to the gym.'
J. B. Bickerstaff
It's always fun when you get to go somewhere new and you get to meet new people and get new experiences.J. B. BickerstaffAlways New People
Nothing is ever perfect in the NBA.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Any good defensive team has a strong anchor, because he cleans up mistakes.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Whenever someone great passes, all of us have a loss.
J. B. Bickerstaff
It's not the way you want to get a job, to see someone you admire and look up to and learned so much from get fired.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody's trying to do.
J. B. Bickerstaff
My dad always took over teams, except for Washington, that were rebuilding, and you hear the taunting, the jokes, negative, awful things about the person you love. That hardens you at a young age.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Let's face it, first-time assistant coaches normally don't walk into jobs with two perennial All-Stars on a team that just got bounced in the Western finals. Normally, they get a job in the middle of a year, playing for lottery balls.
J. B. Bickerstaff
You don't win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.
J. B. Bickerstaff
I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.J. B. BickerstaffAlways Conversation Words
I'm a big believer in communication.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Conflict resolution, all those things, are important. When you're in a group environment, you have to have those. If you don't, things fester. Have the conversation. Resolve it. Move forward.
J. B. Bickerstaff
As a coach, the more experience you have, the more you're around players, it helps so you see how guys learn, ways that are effective to reach different people. You see the aftermath of all the things that happened; you don't just see what happens at the game, you see what happens after the game, the followthrough, and those types of things.
J. B. Bickerstaff
No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.
J. B. Bickerstaff
I watch a ton of movies. Going way back, I like 'The Godfather.' 'The Matrix' was one of my favorites - the first one; they got a little carried away after the first one. Those are two that stand out.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Every day, you learn something. That's the same as assistant coach and the same as a head coach. You should continue to learn. You watch so much basketball, you should see something somewhere from somebody different all the time.
J. B. Bickerstaff
I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.
J. B. Bickerstaff
You go with what you got. That's the thing about having a system, then you plug guys into your system.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Some guys, when they play with other elite players, they end up being too unselfish; or guys who are used to having the ball in their hands all the time, now they're not as aggressive or as instinctive because they're thinking too much out there.
J. B. Bickerstaff
During the regular season, you don't have the sort of time you do in the playoffs to prepare for people, so you've got to go to your strengths.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Through the regular season, if you get really good at what you do, teams will have a hard time adjusting to you.
J. B. Bickerstaff
A lot of times, people think of selfish, and they think of offense, but you can be selfish on the defensive end of the floor, too. If you don't uphold your end of our schemes and your responsibilities within those schemes, then you're being just as selfish.
J. B. Bickerstaff
It's hard to argue with a coach who says, 'I just want you to work.' What can you say to that without making a fool of yourself?
J. B. Bickerstaff
You can have old guys who aren't willing to be coached just like you can have young guys who aren't willing to be coached.
J. B. Bickerstaff
My dad traveled so much for work that, when he was home, we always wanted to spend as much time with him as we could, so going to practices and doing stuff like that with him took precedence over Saturday morning cartoons. We'd go to practice with my dad just so we could be a part of it.
J. B. Bickerstaff
As an assistant coach, the wins and losses don't tally up on your record, so you don't necessarily have that to fall back on, so you have to find smaller games within the bigger picture to play in order to get your victories.
J. B. Bickerstaff
We're all smart enough to figure out Xs and Os - it's basketball, it's not advanced calculus. But the most important thing is can you get your message across to players? Do they believe in you, and do they want to compete for you?
J. B. Bickerstaff
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