"You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting."

-- Rodney Atkins

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes

“We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.”

Source : Mona Simpson (2014). “Casebook: A novel”, p.26, Vintage
“Risk is an essential part of progress.”
“I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. I didn't want to tell people what to do.”
“Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists...”
“It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.”
“A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.”
“I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.”
“We're in the second golden age of television, and to me, one of the most profound things that's happening in TV is just that by default that opened the door to more women, more people of color, more outliers. It's one of the greatest side effects of the digital revolution.”

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