"I think people always have - not just journalists who help their careers, I think all people struggle with this idea that a female pop artist can write all her songs. Even I do it sometimes, you see a really good female pop artist and you're like, 'I wonder if she writes her songs.' That's never really my first initial reaction to a male popstar."

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Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

Ellie Rowsell

#Song Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget there is anything except professional success to live for. The necessity of conforming our habits and standards to the habits and standards of those about us, in order that we may do efficient work, makes us forget that there is a point where conformity ceases to be a virtue.”
“I think Channel One was very integral in my career.”

Source : Biography/ Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.
“I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.”
“A workman is not just a workman. A laborer is not just a laborer. An office worker is not just an office worker. They are living, breathing, important pillars on which the entire structure of our civilization is erected. They are not cogs in a mighty machine. They are the machine itself.”
“Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.”
“All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?”
“Passion Of Mind movie is one of my rare romantic things. I'm ready for another. Shooting that, I remember France. We were in the south of France, and Paris. That's the first thing that comes to mind for that. I just remember that that was a beautiful place to be when we shot it.”
“A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.”

Source : Guy Davenport (2015). “Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays”, p.5, Open Road Media

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