"Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting."

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Christine Lavin

#Football Quotes #Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The Morriganâ€™s ideas of sport and mine varied widely. As a Chooser of the Slain, she tends to enjoy nothing so much as a protracted war. She hangs out with Kali and the Valkyries and they have a death goddessesâ€™ night out on the battlefield.”
“The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.”
“There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.”
“Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?”
“I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.”

Source : Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)
“If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.”

Source : "Baldwin announces bid for U.S. Senate" by Chris Johnson, www.washingtonblade.com. September 6, 2011.
“Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.”
“I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

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