"Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them."

-- Patrick Stump

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“The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.”

Source : Giorgio Agamben (2017). “The Omnibus Homo Sacer”, p.139, Stanford University Press
“The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.”
“Whether your life is happy or not is your own choice. Many people think I can't live a normal life because I don't have arms or legs. I could choose to believe that and give up trying. I could stay at home and wait for others to take care of me. Instead, I choose to believe that I can do anything, and I always try to do things my own way. I choose to be happy. I am happy because I am always thankful.”
“A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.”
“My 'heroes' are those - like Chuang Tzu and Heidegger - who recognize that the world of experience is a human world, but recognize too that there is a 'way' or a 'source' to which our lives are answerable.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.”
“You can't change Washington from the inside, you can only change it from the outside.”
“Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering,”

Source : "To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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