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“Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.”
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“Nothing will replace good journalism.”
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“I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music. Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.”
Source : "Set List: Randy Newman". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 31, 2011.
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“I could eat gazpacho three times a day.”
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“In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.”
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“Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.”
Source : Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press
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“There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.”
Source : "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part V". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. January 19, 2004.
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“Here we don't pray for the weak, we prey on the weak.”
Source : Teresa Mummert (2014). “Pretty Little Things”, p.60, Teresa Mummert