Dorothy Fields Quotes
A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.
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There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.
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From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
