"A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out."

-- Dorothy Fields

#Song Quotes #Tease Quotes

“There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.”
“I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life.”

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“In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from miles away, Clara could follow his conversation with anyone who happened to be sitting next to him.”
“The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The problem is that you don't just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and over and over again. You have to make that choice 5-6 times each day. You have to make that choice even when you really don't want to. It's not a single choice, and it's not easy.”
“Something I don't like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That's the way I look at that word - like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I've never been comfortable with that.”
“The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.”

Source : Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.41, Copper Canyon Press
“... all of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As far as I'm concerned the fact that in 1990 the human body is still a taboo subject is unbelievably ridiculous. What exactly is frightening about the human body?”

Source : David Wojnarowicz (2014). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.88, Open Road Media

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