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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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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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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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
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I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.
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When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
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The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
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I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.
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Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout.
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The person most in control is the person who can give up control.
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Among the plausible niches for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, the clouds of Venus are among the most accessible and the least well explained.
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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.
