"The one good thing about a movie and music and stuff like that: Sometimes it's a counterpoint between the movie and the music itself, the difference and the tension they build together. I think that could be something that helped with me, because when I write songs now, I write lyrics a bit like that. I try to make the music be an interesting twist on the lyrics and help tell the story in a - I don't tell crazy stories, you know? So a lot of times, the twist is in the subtleties. The twist is in the way the story's told."

-- Patrick Watson

#Song Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I found music to be the therapy of choice.”
“I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.”
“I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.”

Source : Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.6, Applewood Books
“Iâ€™m quite capable of walking,â€ she pointed out. It is faster this way. Your legs are short.â€ They are not!”
“I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.”

Source : "Office of the Historian Hosts Conference on the American Experience in Southeast Asia". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2010.
“I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.”
“When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.”
“Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2012). “The Heroes: A First Law Novel”, p.88, Hachette UK

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