"I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find other distractions - reading, doing laundry, talking on the phone, etc. But suddenly I was like a laser beam: I was relentlessly focused, sometimes to the detriment of other things."

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Emily Susan Rapp

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Phones Quotes

“I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.”
“I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.”

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“Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to.”
“Everything has it's own vibe. Every song has a different place, I guess, of where and when and what was going on and things of that nature.”

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“There is nothing you can't achieve if you help other people get what they want”
“Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people's interests into account, who's dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality.”
“In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get.”
“One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.”

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