A Quote by Darryl Pinckney

Unfortunately for me, I was one of these people who took a long time to learn that the material at his feet was fine.

Darryl Pinckney

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Darryl Pinckney
American - Novelist
Born: 1953

I had people put my feet on the ground for me and say, 'No, you don't know everything, and you need to learn this and this and this,' and it took me time to realize that.

Lance Stroll

It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.

Frank Sinatra

People from all over the world want to be in New York. This rather simple idea took me a long time to learn.

David Lichtenstein

When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.

Kevin Nealon

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Jane Fonda

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Laini Taylor

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

Bob Seger

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

Nicole Fosse

Once upon a time, a long time ago, a man took off his jacket and put on a sweater. Then he took off his shoes and put on a pair of sneakers. His name was Fred Rogers.

Tom Junod

I don't like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that's the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don't do a ton of it.

Ron White

I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.

Amanda Peet

A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got really angry, and I shouted "I'm not done yet!"

Mark Jason Dominus

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.

Sara Zarr

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel. It just took me a really long time to get to a place where I felt comfortable with the material and the recording.

Jenny Lewis

Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven years to get a sense of how to wean myself off the process and trickery of songwriting. You realize that giant metaphors work in songs because you have so few words. Standing alone on a page, they threaten to be overblown in a hurry.