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“Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that”
Source : FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Mar 02, 2013
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“I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.”
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“We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail”
Source : Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.22, Penguin
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“If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.”
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“We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.”
Source : Oliver Heaviside (1893). “Electromagnetic Theory”
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“For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.”
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“I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.”
Source : "Ex-'Blue's Clues' host Steve Burns an indie rocker at heart" by Joe Dangelo, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2002.
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“Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.”