Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Quotes to Explore
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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Beyonce is very special. I think the super-pop thing that supposedly died with Michael Jackson is still there with her.
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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
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Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.
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From wonder into wonder existence opens.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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The most profound question is, "What would I risk dying for?" The natural answer is "for my family." But for most of history, we didn't live in families. We lived in small communities that gave us our sense of safety and place in the world, so the natural answer would be "for my people." The blessing and the tragedy of modern life is that we don't need our community to survive anymore. When we lose that idea, we lose a sense of who we are.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
