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“We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.”
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“I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.”
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“To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.”
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“She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?†Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.”
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“A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.”
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“I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.”
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“Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.”
Source : "Legendary Trio Holland-Dozier-Holland Talk About Their Motown Hits, and New Projects". Interview with Dale Kawashima, www.songwriteruniverse.com. 2005.
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“Things like rhyming - it just wasn't falling out of my head that way. So I started to get quite freaked out that I just couldn't write anymore. And then I just kind of went with it, and thought that, "This is the way that my brain's working," in a more direct way, then I should just try it like that for this album. And follow it. Just went with the writer's block, almost - it's a strange thing.”
Source : "'Our intention was clearer' - Daughter talks battling writer’s block and exploring new influences". Interview With Brian Shultz, substreammagazine.com. April 8, 2016.