"I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning."

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Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.115, Scholastic Inc.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#Burning Quotes #Bombing Quotes #Screwed Up Quotes

“The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.”
“The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.”
“If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.”
“Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four hours pass in a moment; I have no idea what time it is, because I never check the clock. If I chose to listen, I could hear the swish of taxis bound for downtown bars or the soft saxophone riffs that drift from a neighbor's window, but nothing gets through. I am suspended in a sensory deprivation tank, and the very lack of sensation is delicious.”
“The fact that our message and my lyrics can have a positive impact on someone's life is really astounding. It definitely makes me appreciate what I do even more because I'm not just doing it for self-gain, I'm doing it to help others.”
“There are rules in movies. I did a movie playing a bad cop who was a ***** addict but they wouldn't let me smoke in a movie.”
“Itâ€™s not the fear of writing that blocks people, itâ€™s fear of not writing well; something quite different.”
“It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.”

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