Valerie Simpson Quotes
Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
Valerie Simpson
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
Val Guest
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The emotions of the game do not change.
Jack Youngblood
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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
Eduard Hanslick
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
Ma Jun
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
Vikram Chatwal
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When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
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There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'
Joko Beck
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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
Billy Wilder
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Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.
Napoleon Hill
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No one looks twice at me when they're around, and 'Cinderella' has made no difference. And I know that isn't going to change.
Lily James
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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
Valerie Simpson