"I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that."

-- Graham Parker

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.”
“We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised at how many Negroes would choose to live among themselves, exactly as Poles and Jews and other ethnic groups do.”
“I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.”

Source : "Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85" by Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, www.independent.co.uk. January 16, 2009.
“My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.”
“It was palpable, all that wanting: Mother wanting something more, Dad wanting something more, everyone wanting something more. This wasn't going to do for us fifties girls; we were going to have to change the equation even if it meant . . . abstaining from motherhood, because clearly that was where Mother got caught.”
“For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.”

Source : Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
“I canâ€™t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I wonâ€™t say it again.”
“the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.”

Source : Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”

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