"I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring a song in a specific time and place. Sometimes the new words and objects are too enjoyable and descriptive to ignore. And maybe making work that acknowledges that it won't last forever is important, too."

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Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk

John K. Samson

#Song Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Dating Quotes

“Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.”

Source : "The Story of a Strong Woman in a Patriarchal Country: Nell Freudenberger's The Newlyweds". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. June 22, 2012.
“Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?”
“There's not much left inside me, Max" Sometimes, all she heard were echoes.”
“With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!”
“A woman with a mother heart has a testimony of the restored gospel, and she teaches the principles of the gospel without equivocation. She is keeping sacred covenants made in holy temples. Her talents and skills are shared unselfishly. She gains as much education as her circumstances will allow, improving her mind and spirit with the desire to teach what she learns to the generations who follow her.”
“One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.”
“There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.”

Source : Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”
“A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.”

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