"Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties â€“ French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time."

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Source : "Hadrian the Seventh" by Frederick Rolfe, Penguin Modern Classics edition, Harmondsworth, (p. 58), 1963.

Frederick Rolfe

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“A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.”
“To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.”
“But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.”
“The pure products of America go crazy”
“Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.”
“Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.”

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“After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.”
“I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where as soon as the listener tunes in, they say "That's CoJo, that's Cody right there." That being said, it is a little different. There's Americana, there's Bluegrass, there's some rock, there's some really George Jones-style stuff on it, slow-style Ray Price country elements, there's some modern country, a little of this and a little of that. We tried to push a lot for show versatility, because I grew up with a lot of versatility in my music.”

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