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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
Zig Ziglar
You
Confidence
Taking
Moby
Moby Dick
Going
After
Sauce
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You
Impossible
Difficult
Though
Facing
Take
Fail
Along
Moby
Moby Dick
Task
Going
After
Act
Sauce
Difficult Task
My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.
Flume
Crazy
People
Strong
Dance
Say
Flying
Hop
Kind
Super
Some
Inspirations
Main
Come
Like
French
Hip
Hip-Hop
Still
Lotus
Moby
Bunch
Get
Trance
Artists
Movement
Influence
Experimental
Chilled
Prodigy
Then
Electronica
Round
Early
I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
Gary Paulsen
Book
Wife
Animals
Drunk
Stupid
Incredible
Books
Macho
Favorite
Would
Feast
Beat
He
Like
Him
His
Moby
Moby Dick
Author
Person
Shooting
Personally
Who
Fun
Hemingway
Believed
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.
Julius Erving
Life
People
Other
Relate
Guess
Typical
Books
More
Adult
Adult Life
Had
Read
Began
Moby
Moby Dick
Than
Want
Fiction
Happened
Really
Lives
Things
Biographies
Started
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
Laurie Anderson
Life
Will
Looking
Those
Besides
Details
Find
About
Someone
Something
Know
Huge
Moby
Moby Dick
Whaling
Wanted
Them
Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead.
Marge Simon
Hope
Me
Will
Dinner
Months
Locked
Out
Someone
Write
Take
Instead
Himself
His
Moby
Moby Dick
Pity
Decide
While
Room
Working
Novel
Away
Ever
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
Michael Chabon
Book
Amazing
Before
Starts
Too
Meeting
Characters
Parallel
Reluctantly
Share
Forced
Bed
How
Moby
Moby Dick
Begins
Just
Realized
Noticed
Two
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
Michael Cunningham
Great
First
Complete
Books
Great Gatsby
Critically
Both
Student
Written
Failures
Most
Knows
Were
Moby
Moby Dick
Commercially
Any
Often
Literature
Popular
Appeared
Last
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
Moby
Art
Rather
Naive
Go
Moby
Than
Much
Show
Painfully
I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there.
Richard Jenkins
Eating
Like
End
Up
Moby
Moby Dick
Whale
Getting
May
Keep
Play
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.
Sophie Hannah
Good
Writing
Important
Type
Relationships
Say
Would
Would-Be
About
Highbrow
She
Austen
Moby
Moby Dick
Whale
Just
Romantic
Literary
Jane
Jane Austen
Ever
I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.
Spencer Boldman
Love
Great
School
Few
Every
Books
Months
Favorite
Great Gatsby
High
High School
Read
Were
Moby
Moby Dick
English
Assigned
Two
When I first did 'Moby,' I didn't realize how taxing it would be. I was climbing fifty feet up in the air and climbing down. Literally, it's so busy, you feel you're on a ship. You're always moving; you're constantly adding clothes or taking them off, and there are many people on stage all the time!
Stephen Costello
Time
You
People
First
Clothes
Stage
Down
Busy
Adding
Air
Would
Would-Be
Constantly
Taking
Feel
Feet
Always
How
Climbing
Off
Ship
Up
Moby
Did
Literally
Moving
Them
Realize
Taxing
Fifty
Many
In productions such as 'Anna Bolena' and 'Rigoletto,' the costumes are tailored, and they're tight. In 'Moby,' it's like you're wearing pajamas, and you have more freedom. It's very comfortable on stage.
Stephen Costello
Freedom
You
Stage
Wearing
More
Costumes
Tailored
Anna
Like
Comfortable
Tight
Moby
Very
Productions
Pajamas
The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
Gavin O'Connor
Home
You
Heart
Simple
Ocean
White
Plot
About
Only
Hostile
Boy
Up
Moby
Moby Dick
Very
Whale
Happening
Unique
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
Imagine