No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.
Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.
I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.
Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth. It's a virtuous cycle.
The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.
I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.
The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.
You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.
If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.
I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking.
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.
Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.
It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.
I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.
Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.
