Quotes About Label

Over the years I've come to think of memories as tiny living things, microorganisms that swim through the brain until they've found the right compartment in which to settle down and rest. If the compartment isn't available, if there's no proper label for the memory, it takes up residence somewhere else, gets lodged in a corner and gnaws at you periodically, cropping up at odd times, or in dreams.

Actually, he told me later that I had turned him gay . . . by taking codeine again. And I said, "You know, I never read that warning on the label." I thought it said heavy machinery, not homosexuality—turns out I could have been driving those tractors all along! Turning

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!

they tremble and hide under the table when a local branch of ADL calls them 'anti-Semites'. Like the label of 'witch' in Salem, this word triggers a spasm wave in the target population.

Eve leaned in again. "I am a ranking officer. If you call me a bitch, you'd better damn well put Lieutenant in front of it.

Cherry Pie. But you can call me anything you like.

In 1985, I went to work for MTM Records, Mary Tyler Moore's Nashville record label, and stayed three years. After that, I spent two years as an independent promoter, then worked for MCA Nashville Records, DreamWorks Nashville, and Universal Music Nashville.

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.

It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it?

You can't allow yourself to get typecast as a recruiter, because that label sticks and carries. I fought it. I made myself learn the game and teach the game.

People tend to typecast you in a certain way, depending on the kind of work you have been doing till then.

If your film and character are a hit, chances are you'll get typecast in that space.

I have a problem being called a comedian. An actor must never be typecast in one way or the other.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

Había que humanizar los objetos, darles un nombre mono.

I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big moves and gained a lot of fans.

I don't consider myself - and I hope I'm never going to be - a 'movie star.' I'd like to be called an actor.

My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn't ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.

One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.

In the past I've had a very small independent label help me do an album and I'm so grateful for that, but as anybody knows in the music industry, that is down there.

I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.