"I went to college in North Carolina, and that's how I learned how to play music. I learned how to play guitar when I was 12, and I was always in bands, but the first time I ever started writing my own music was being surrounded by a lot of songwriter friends in North Carolina."

-- Nicole Atkins

#Writing Quotes #College Quotes #First Time Quotes

“When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.”
“I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.”
“I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.”
“We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.”

Source : Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1839). “Sermons”, p.129
“If he had another hair on his back, he'd be up a tree.”
“I don't really like L.A. much anymore. It's a hideous city. The weather's nice sometimes. It's just too crowded for me and too claustrophobic and too aggressive and too scary, and too chaotic. Did I say chaotic already? I like the country. I like quiet.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I have this theory about words. There's a thousand ways to say 'Pass the salt'. It could mean, you know, 'Can I have some salt?' or it could mean, 'I love you.' It could mean, 'I'm very annoyed with you'. Really, the list could go on and on. Words are little bombs, and they have a lot of energy inside them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.”

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