Petra Haden Quotes
You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.
Petra Haden
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I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.
Gaby Hoffmann
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
Gary McCord
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
Octavio Paz
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I've laid my friends bare.
Joanne Rowling
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
J. G. Ballard
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As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.
Tom Lehrer
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I've sung in the shower for years.
Chris Pine
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
Taylor Swift
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I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
Red Cloud
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You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.
Petra Haden