"So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide."

-- Michel Legrand

#Writing Quotes #Two Quotes #Three Quotes

“I don't write songs, songs write me.”
“The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.”
“I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.”
“They make a desolation and call it peace.”

Source : Agha Shahid Ali (2009). “The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company
“Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”
“Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.”
“The person that works the hardest wins.”
“As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.”

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