"I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school I used to love writing poems and poetry, so I guess I kind of put two and two together and that formed my songwriting from an early age."

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Ella Henderson

#Teaching Quotes #Writing Quotes #School Quotes

“As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.”
“When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.”
“Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.”
“It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.”
“It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.288, Simon and Schuster
“I was always a self-conscious person.”
“I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.”
“... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.”

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