"We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni Mitchell] will write exactly what she lives. If she puts some money in the soda machine, she'll write about putting money in the soda machine. "Dry Cleaner from Des Moines," on the Shadows & Light album, was about sitting next to a dry cleaner from Des Moines, playing a slot machine."

-- Don Alias

#Writing Quotes #Talking Quotes #Light Quotes

“It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.”

Source : "Story of a Feather", in "Punch", Volume V, p. 55, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 911-17, 1922.
“I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.”
“Here is a pragmatic and idealistic suggestion, White America! When you see my kids on the playground, on the street, can you remember to smile at them as you would smile at your own? Because believe me as your better angel already does they are every bit as lovable.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“To progress is always to begin always to begin again”
“I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.”
“While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.”
“Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.”
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”

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