"I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to be overly "clever," and trying to keep things as accessible - and singable - as possible."

-- Peter Blegvad

#Song Quotes #Clever Quotes #Believe Quotes

“The sunset you see is always better than the one you donâ€™t. More stars are always better than less.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.36, Serpent's Tail
“If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”
“The stars are filming us for no one.”
“Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and lays claim to humility. I see hubris on both sides: a pretence that we could ascend to an objective account of the world, on the one hand, and a pretence that we have the resources to live and act without a sense of there being something to which we answerable, on the other. So both sides are 'villains'.”
“I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.”
“I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.”
“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
“So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.”

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