"All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass the benzene ring of their tyrosin unbroken and how and where the peculiar chemical change from tyrosin to homogentisic acid is brought about, remain unsolved problems."

-- Archibald Garrod

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“If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.”
“For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.”

Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.
“A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.”
“When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.”
“I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end.”
“We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.”
“I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.”

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