"Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark."

-- Steve Earle

#Song Quotes #Taken Quotes #Writing Quotes

“A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.”
“Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.”
“Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.”
“We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.”

Source : "Emmanuelle Chriqui Shares Her Beauty Secrets". Interview with Catherine Quinn O'neill, www.allure.com. January 17, 2013.
“I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.”
“Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.”

Source : "Aniston in Mindfulness Movie". bigthink.com.
“May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.”
“I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.”

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