"I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone."

-- Aretha Franklin

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“Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.”
“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
“An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness.”
“I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.”
“I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.”
“It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.”

Source : "Daniel Day-Lewis wins third best actor Oscar". "PM" with Linda Mottram, www.abc.net.au. February 25, 2013.
“Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.”
“You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.”

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