Quotes About Passion

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.

There are pros and cons to everything but especially with what I have chosen. There are cons - the privacy level and everything that comes with it - but I feel there are a lot more pros. And I am doing what I love to do, so I am not complaining at all.

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me.

I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.

I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never see myself leaving comics. I love it too much.

When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.

I have a certain amount of creative energy, and it used to go painting. Now most of it goes to music. I like to make things. I treat the songs more like poems than prose, so in that sense, I don't really have a point to make. I just try to be surprised.

My true passion is in the prosecution of criminal cases.

I love prosecuting cases, and I love doing investigations, particularly homicide investigations and the like, and that's why I became a prosecutor.

That's who I was: a prosecutor. I really loved it.

I never saw myself as a prospect, it was always about playing as much football as I can.

I wanted to be a prosthetic makeup artist after watching 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'.

'Aashiqui 2' and 'Yeh Jawaani' were hit films, especially the former film in which I was the protagonist.

People protect what they love.

I'd always been a very focused dancer and very protected.

Miley grew up around animals and with all our horses growing up, so she is very passionate about protecting all animals.

I was always into animals and animal protection, ever since I was growing up.

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

Every film is like a baby for me; it's like my own child. I feel protective and aggressive each time my film hit theatres.

I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response.

The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.

I'm so proud of my time in karate and what I achieved. It's part of me, so I don't want to leave it behind.