"Well, putting words on paper isn't your job. Your job is to go digging around in your soul. And that's the end of it all. A songwriter's job is to go digging around in his soul. And come up with, and put to paper, what others can't express about the soul itself."

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Source : Interview with Shawna Ortega, www.songfacts.com. September 15, 2007.

Radney Foster

#Jobs Quotes #Soul Quotes #Digging Quotes

“She is the elephantâ€™s eyebrows,â€ Evie whispered appreciatively. â€œThose jewels! How her neck must ache.â€ â€œThatâ€™s why Bayer makes aspirin,â€ Mabel whispered back, and Evie smiled, knowing that even a socialist wasnâ€™t immune to the dazzle of a movie star.”
“I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.”
“A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT INVEST IN BUSINESS.. THEY INVEST IN BUSY-NESS (They Purchase A Job)”
“I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.”
“A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.”

Source : "Gymnastics Vault Needs 'Speed, Explosive Action'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. July 31, 2012.
“I realized that a dancer's life is very short and I had so much of a creative energy in me that I needed outlets to do other things so that's when I started acting more and it all kind of blended together. When you're on stage you're acting and you're dancing, it started blended together now.”

Source : Source: thecelebritycafe.com
“Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.”
“The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.”

Source : Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.362, Pickle Partners Publishing

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