"One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity."

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Source : "Music Legend Hal David Passes, But His Lyrics Still Resonate" by Brian Levin, J.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.

Hal David

#Falling In Love Quotes #Objectivity Quotes #Lines Quotes

“I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.”

Source : "My LA: Chris Weitz On Hidden Neighborhoods, Food Trucks & Malibu". Interview with Lucy Blodgett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2011.
“THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military bomb disposal team, recounts his deployment to Iraq with unflinching candor, and in the process exposes crucial truths not only about this particular conflict, but also about war throughout history. Castner's memoir brings to mind Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front.”
“A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.”
“I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.”
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”
“Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.”
“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
“I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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