"I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones."

-- Ed McBain

#Winning Quotes #Awards Quotes #Musical Quotes

“A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.”
“The way I feel about you, it's like I finally understand what Lionel Richie is singing about. I mean, what we have, it's like movie love.”
“Once," Balinda begins softly, "when I was in the emergency room with my mother they brought in a murderer who had been shot and was dying, right there in front of us. I watched as the nurse touched his face and reassured him and I could not believe they were being so nice to him.""What happened?" Jill asked."My mother rose up, took my arm, gripped it as if she was a weight lifter and said, 'he was a beautiful baby once and his mother loved him'.”

Source : Kris Radish (2006). “Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral”, p.199, Bantam
“Do not lose yourself in your everyday work and activities. Rather, lose yourself in God. When you are doing work, let your innermost heart be centered on Him. Live in His presence and abide in Him. Then your work will follow you into eternity, and you will reap a rich harvest.”
“New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.”
“A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.”
“The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.”
“Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.”

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