"Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends."

-- Nile Rodgers

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“I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.”
“Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.”
“You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.”
“One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.”
“Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.”

Source : Basil King (2012). “The Conquest of Fear”, p.36, tredition
“I don't want to show kids that I am smoking.”

Source : The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.
“What a writer brings to any story is an attitude”
“Don't be humble... you're not that great.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Mar. 1969

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