"Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer."

-- John Amos

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“She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here... but God, I wanted her to.”
“happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
“What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?”
“I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.”
“When I started playing solo 10 years ago, I had some ham-fisted idea about trying to subvert the "singer-songwriter" tag/genre, and I tried to obscure my identity into the identity of a collective or band or whatever. That's part of the reason that I used to play with backing tapes and why so much of my early stuff was so awash in tape hiss and echo noise.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.”

Source : "Fictional character: Alicia Huberman". "Notorious", 1946.
“The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.”
“Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.”

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