"There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something."

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Source : "Tom Odell: 'Having your heart broken makes for good songs'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

Tom Odell

#Writing Quotes #Brain Quotes #Relax Quotes

“For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.”
“One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.”
“I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.”

Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (1990). “The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts”, p.142, Penguin
“I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.”

Source : "Films Come to Life with Stanley Clarke's Music". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. February 15, 2008.
“I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.”
“The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich."”
“I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.”

Source : Maclean's, March 29, 1958.
“We don't need to save the Earth. I think the Earth is doing very well right now. And, it's mirroring the density within us, showing us what we need to shift - and that we are shifting. It's all very positive, as far as I'm concerned.”

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