Merle Travis Quotes
The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.
Merle Travis
Quotes to Explore
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
Victoria Justice
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
Mackenzie Foy
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle
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The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
Maya Angelou
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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
Eric Brown
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I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.
Ellie Goulding
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
Andrew Vachss
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I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
Andy Rooney
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Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
Rob Zombie
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Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about
Kevin Bales