"Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods."

-- Tom Waits

#Song Quotes #Character Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.”

Source : Hallie Southgate Burnett, Whit Burnett (1979). “Fiction Writer's Handbook”, HarperCollins Publishers
“It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.”
“As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.”
“My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.”
“I have the opportunity to make my films and I think that's a luxury. I don't have any problems by filming things that can have a connection with left-wing policy, even if we have a right-wing government. There are some countries which cannot say the same, so I'm lucky.”
“Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.”
“I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.”
“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.”

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