"All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there... I think of it as my serious playground."

-- Laura Nyro

#Responsibility Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.”
“You can see a lot about our mission on our website, but the basic idea is that the church believes that understanding human beings and the Earth requires not only faith but also reason, and not only philosophical reason but also scientific reason.”
“One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.”

Source : D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.”
“But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.”
“I like really stupid comedies.”
“The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.”
“Deception is the knowledge of kings.”

Source : "Maxims". "Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu", 1964.

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