A lot of people kind of perceive me as some kind of pop act because in the early ’80s ‘I Love A Rainy Night’ went No. 1 for two weeks in a row and ‘Driving My Life Away’ sold a million records.
For a lot of people, it’s a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don’t go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn’t drive me.
I think voters appreciate that I’m not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.
‘Carnival Row’ is us looking at the stranger; ‘The Curiosity’ is the stranger looking at us.
I don’t want to overplay the diary’s significance, but it’s a really helpful batting aid. It’s not an obsession because I don’t spend more than 10 or 20 minutes writing a day – and not necessarily every day. I might write in it three days in a row and then not the next four. It depends on the situation.
There was a line call that didn’t look so great. I went ballistic. Called the umpire a jerk. Whacked a ball into the stands. Then smacked a soda can with my racket, and got soda all over the King of Sweden, who was sitting in the front row.
For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.
You’re never going to release the next album and have it be different from your other two, three, four, five albums. People give them a hard time, but it’s like, ‘I’m an artist, I’m trying to grow. I don’t want to have the same album for 10 albums in a row!’ Same thing for a martial artist.
What I have to do to make sure I don’t lose some games in a row; I don’t know.
You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‘Well gee, let’s not mess this up.’ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.
I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, ‘In Country,’ which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.
I’m a history buff, and right now we’re sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.
I don’t think there is just one Louis Vuitton woman. That is why, for the fall/winter 2011 show, I loved the idea of lots of different characters – a wife, a mistress, a girlfriend – stepping out of the row of hotel elevators.
If you think you don’t want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.
A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.
I think The Row skews toward an older market – an educated consumer who’s been shopping for years.
Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I’ve ever had. The view is breathtaking.
It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
My ultimate cheat meal, and my last meal if I was on death row, would be a roast dinner. I’m just such a Sunday roast fan. But I also want the dessert – I want the cheese board.
My victory against Venus was the most special. She’s is a multi grand slam champion; her sister is Serena Williams. I was like, ‘What is going on?’ I broke her five times in a row. She is one of the best servers in the game.
Don’t think because I’m a positive dude, I’m going to always say something nice. If you come at me crooked, one too many times or if too many people came at me crooked too many times in a row, then they’re going to get it. I don’t always exercise that self control and I don’t regret it either.
I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it’s doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I’m in, I’m at choice in the matter.
I went to college, I wrestled and I took some amateur fights. When I graduated, I wanted to start using my degree, but I figured I would start fighting professionally. Then I won 18 in a row and I fought Eddie Alvarez on pay-per-view.
Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.
I spent 30 years on Alabama’s death row for a crime I did not commit.
When you’re losing, and you’re losing again, and you’re losing 3… 4… 5 games in a row, it can be frustrating.
Inspired by London’s Savile Row, I wanted to bring an American curated experience for men to Madison Avenue… a place where they cannot only shop but explore.
I’d be a pop star. Although, I was once sat front row at a Rihanna concert when she came down to the audience and sat on my lap, pointed the microphone towards my mouth, and I couldn’t sing a line.
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.
I love yoga, and I love circuit training where you can do five exercises, 15-20 reps of each exercise, and I do it five times in a row – it only takes twenty minutes, and you can do it anywhere. You feel instantly better.
I don’t know what my Death Row meal would be. I’m surprised that people can even eat when they’re on Death Row.
With L.A. it’s like, yeah, there’s Death Row and whatever. But I always wanted to know what those artists were sampling. It’s how I fell in love with music.
A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they’re screaming and yelling too much. It’s more singing than screaming.
I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.
Believe me, when you’re sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you’re going through it, you’re going to be alive.
I’m not silly enough to not understand that if you lose 10 games in a row, very rarely are you safe in a job.
People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis’ record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row – there’s just too much to get through.
I could string together 15 wins in a row and still not get a title shot.
Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them.
The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row – didn’t miss a single one.
I used to play in the front row, I could eat whatever I want – but I got up to 97 kilograms. And let’s remember I’m five foot bloody nothing!
When you play a lot of games in a row, and you come off the pitch thinking, ‘I can’t do this no more,’ then it is time to look at something else, whether you have six months left on your contract or four years.
I’ve never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious… knocked out cold before… and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.
It’s volatile, the marriage. Which one isn’t? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.
I’ve been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.
My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that’s plagiarism, that’s taking other people’s music.
I’ve beaten Anderson twice, then Lyoto Machida and now Belfort. I’ll be proud to have taken down three all-time legends in a row.
I’ve also learned to no longer feel guilty if I’m invited out and don’t want to go. If I start to say to myself, ‘What’s wrong with you that you’re staying in five nights in a row to watch ‘Forensic Files’ instead of going out with your friends’ I remind myself that it’s what I need to do for myself at that point.
No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they’re radically different.
Lyndon B. Johnson thought he’d have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas – for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).
Sitting front row with my little brother, my older brother, and my dad’s wife at the time – seeing 80,000 people at the Citrus Bowl emotionally pouring their hearts out watching my dad retire – I didn’t even grasp what he meant to the industry. I didn’t even fully grasp it until I started wrestling myself.
Sometimes players can have some ups-and-downs after they have done well and then lose a few matches in a row.
It’s always pretty cool to hit a card on the river, especially when you’re lucky enough to do it two days in a row. But good fortune doesn’t last forever.
