"[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember."

-- Regina Spektor

#Song Quotes #Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady”
“I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.”
“...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.”
“It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.”

Source : "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.
“The best one-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is still Benjamin Thomas's 1952 biography. David Donald's 1995 biography is a close second, and close enough that if you can only obtain the Donald rather than the Thomas, your book club will still be doing just fine.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.”
“The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?”
“Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military.”

Source : "Obama and the Legacy of Camelot" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

You may also like: