"It's very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I'm like asking for money for a music video for every song - it's so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want - and I've always worked to make it all connect - for all of it to feel cohesive."

-- Melanie Martinez

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“I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.”
“Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.”
“We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.”

Source : "Jack Klugman Dead: 'The Odd Couple' Actor Dies At 90" by Polly Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 24, 2012.
“There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is shaken with bone-black, filtered and tested with starch paste. If the colorless solution does not turn the starch blue, the experiment shows how completely charcoal extracts iodine from aqueous solution. If the starch turns blue, the experiment shows that the solution, though apparently colorless, still contains iodine which can be detected by means of a sensitive starch test.”

Source : Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1926). “Applied Colloid Chemistry, General Theory”
“I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.”
“Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life.... The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.”
“The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty”
“Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.”

Source : William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.43, Amadeus Press

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