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I try to tell a story musically in a song.

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• It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Song

• I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.

  

  Damien Hirst
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  • Single
  • Kid

• I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Story
  • Problems

• I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Different
  • Find
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• There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

  

  Beck
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Wish
  • Try

• I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Think
  • Try
  • Moderation

• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Try
  • Fiction
  • Short

• Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Story
  • Doing

• Every time, I try to make something different.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Time
  • Different
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• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Song
  • Moments
  • Learn

• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Song
  • Drama

• As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Always
  • Story
  • Weakness

• Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

  

  Young Thug
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  • Why
  • Think

• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Books

• Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Happy
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  • Be Happy

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Try

• I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.

  

  Maluma
  • Time
  • Good
  • Heart

• As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Problem
  • Worry
  • Sentimental

• I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

  

  Leighton Meester

• I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don't have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Clubs
  • Theaters
  • Solo Career

• LYou can get yourself cut and stitched, or you can get a good girdle. The day before my first Emmy show, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I've worn that thing to every single awards show since!

  

  Jane Kaczmarek
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• I try to tell a story musically in a song.

  

  Barry White
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