When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.
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RED ADAIR When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a ... JASON KIDD With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a ... JIM RASH It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. HARRY S TRUMAN When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your... KIM CATTRALL It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a... KATE BOSWORTH Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's yo... BILLY CRYSTAL See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? ... ROBBIE COLTRANE See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? ... ROBBIE COLTRAINE You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Oly... JOE BIDEN There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that&... AL LEWIS When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and sudde... SCOTT WEILAND If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it&... DIANA GABALDON When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument. PETER HOOK After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, direc... JOHN RATZENBERGER When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional... ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If ... JIM CRAMER You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever... GREG RUSEDSKI It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you h... JUDY GREER On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when... DAVID HYDE PIERCE But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for ... LAURA BUSH When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ba... JOANNA KRUPA It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive. LAURA SCHLESSINGER It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit recor... BEBE REXHA When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on... MELISSA ETHERIDGE When you raise your voice in song to express what's going on deep inside of you, I think people ... JANE LYNCH At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do w... ABBY WAMBACH When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, bu... 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MARIO WILLIAMS With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. Th... VANESSA LACHEY People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you... FELICIA DAY There's something so great when you're watching a movie when you slowly get to know somebody... DEREK CIANFRANCE I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into t... DAVID SELTZER If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing... JAMES DYSON Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think... GINNI ROMETTY When you dance together, there's a fabulous interaction. It's quite intimate. You're tou... ANTON DU BEKE If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort... JEREMY CLARKSON It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not ... LUPITA NYONG'O I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much tim... FINN WITTROCK What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When... SNOOP DOGG A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You'r... STONE GOSSARD When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you canno... JOY HARJO People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman a... CINDY SHERMAN I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's... CHANTAL KREVIAZUK When you have tough times, and when you learn you can't be perfect in every situation, it's ... ANA IVANOVIC People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But th... BRYAN BATT No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it... 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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca... CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the... CHARLES BUKOWSKI