"Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too...."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Writing Quotes #Dancer Quotes #Competition Quotes

“...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...”
“I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.”
“In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.”
“If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.”

Source : "Randy Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2011.
“I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.”
“As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.”
“What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.”
“More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.”

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