"Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter. ... I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away."

-- Melissa Manchester

#Song Quotes #Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.”

Source : L'Officiel magazine, Summer 1980.
“With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.”
“It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.”
“There's a huge challenge around coral bleaching specifically, because when most people think about coral, they think about the beautiful, white sculpture sitting on their mantle. And it looks so pristine and clean and beautiful. It's not supposed to look like that when it's in the ocean. It has color, it has animal flesh living on it, it has plants living inside of that. They look very, very different when they're healthy in the ocean than they do when they're sitting in somebody's home.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.”

Source : Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.361, Tuttle Publishing
“What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.”

Source : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”
“Democrats in Washington predicted that tax cuts would not create jobs, would not increase wages, and would cause the federal deficit to explode. Well, the facts are in. The tax cuts have led to a strong economy. Real wages were on the rise, and deficit has been cut in half three years ahead of schedule.”
“Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?”

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