"If you can live with the ups and downs, pick yourself up every morning, then there's nothing more gratifying."

-- Rick Welts

#Morning Quotes #Pick Yourself Up Quotes #Ups & Downs Quotes

“My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it”
“There are lots of stories in pop music, lots of lush orchestrations, lots of attention to detail. You just have to know where to find them. The best stuff is never overt.”
“If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville.”
“While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.”

Source : Cover Magazine, 1994.
“I really wanted Rachel [from the Girl on The Train] to be purely fixated on fantasy and on her ex-husband.I didn't want her to be embarking on romance, touching people; I wanted her purely in the realm of fantasy and frustration and dreaming and sadness.”

Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com
“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.”
“In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they may be known, whether by the name of tribute, tythe, tallage, impost, duty, gabel, custom, subsidy, aid, supply, excise, or other name.”
“I never thought about the green, but LA has a lot of greenery.”

Source : "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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