„Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.“
Jonathan Safran Foer2
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„Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was“
— Jonathan Safran Foer, книга Everything Is Illuminated, Everything Is Illuminated
„Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.“
— Josh Groban American musician and actor 1981
Inside Connection, February 2004
„I guess that singing is probably a very selfish thing. I guess it doesn't matter what you do. It's selfish in a way 'cause there's satisfaction involved and so. As a singer, you sometimes have to justify your reason for existence in a sort of a way because: what really are you doing for people, they say?“
— Anne Murray Canadian singer 1945
On singing as a job, as quoted in a 1971 CBC interview: "Anne Murray thinks singing is selfish: The Vault", CBC/Radio-Canada, CBC.ca, 14 February 2018 http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1161696323776
„I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.“
— Lionel Messi Argentine association football player 1987
„I want to know that I've done everything I could every day I think of all those people out there who are depending on us. I think about it. It does make me feel we need more work, more help. Get those spectators on the playing field, or out of the arena. Really, that is how I feel about it. I do what I can, and I do it the way I do everything… there's nothing part of the way for me.“
— Tom Cruise American actor and film producer 1962
„Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.“
— William F. Buckley Jr. American conservative author and commentator 1925 - 2008
As quoted in "William F. Buckley Jr., Rapier Wit Of the Right" in The Washington Post (28 February 2008) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022703901.html.
„I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been.“
— William Saroyan American writer 1908 - 1981
Context: I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.
"One Day in the Afternoon of the World" (1964)
„Come to your senses, defenses are not the way to go / And you know, or at least you knew / Everything's strange, you've changed and I don't know what to do / To get through“
— Jonathan Larson American composer and playwright 1960 - 1996
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