"Yeah, except that when I write pop songs I have pretty strict constraints that I impose on myself. 69 Love Songs is a constraint. That the titles have to begin with "I'"s is a relatively strict constraint. Charm of the Highway Strip is all travel songs. And I am free to change the plot slightly to accommodate something that happens to rhyme conveniently."

-- Stephin Merritt

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Rhyme Quotes

“You must follow Jesus for yourself, but you canâ€™t follow Him by yourself.”
“I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.”

Source : "Interview with Playwright, Donald Margulies". Interview with Ted Sod, www.broadwayworld.com. January 13, 2014.
“I do have quite a lot of sympathy for Fodor's picture of concepts as information-free atomic entities which get locked onto their referents causally, and to that extent they needn't involve anything much in the way of learning. But even so it seems perverse to call them 'innate'. Here we see again the oddity of treating 'not learned' as sufficient for innate.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“God we proclaim death to anything or anyone that will lift a hand against this network and ministry that belongs to you God. It is your work, your idea, it is your property, it is your airwaves, it is your world. We proclaim death to anything that would stand in the way of God's great voice of proclamation to the whole world. In the name of Jesus and all the people said Amen!”
“Close your eyes and see what you believe.”
“Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.”
“God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Three Days Before the Shooting . . .”, p.987, Modern Library
“Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.”

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