"If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too."

-- Peter Carey

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“I don't do things that are comedic. This is such a crazy idea.”
“Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.”
“My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.”
“My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.”
“Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated â€” a system of checks and balances.”
“I was definitely a choir and theater geek.”

Source : "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.
“When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.”

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