"YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged."

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Source : Pat Pattison (2010). “Writing Better Lyrics”, p.20, Writer's Digest Books

Pat Pattison

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“Because as a father of three kids, I know how important good seeds are for providing healthy food for my family.”
“Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.”
“The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.”
“A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.”
“As a party of labor, the SPD must work together with the unions to ensure that people can make a living with their work. That is why I am not a proponent of the concept of unconditional basic income. I am, however, very much in favor of decent wage agreements, secure and lasting jobs, employee participation in decision-making and the examination of the social justification for claims and payments.”
“Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.”
“There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.”
“You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.”

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