"I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single song. Plotting takes time and effort, for there are many false turns. I fill up pages and pages with my mistakes, thereby eliminating them. Eventually a trail is broken through this mountain of mistakes. Sometimes it's as easy as putting eggs in a basket; other times it's like trying to pound a ton of sand into a diamond."

-- David Massengill

#Song Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Writing Quotes

“We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.”
“Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?”
“I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.”

Source : "Park Geun-hye claims South Korea presidential victory" by Madison Park, Paula Hancocks, KJ Kwon, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2012.
“How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ.”

Source : "Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul". Book by D. James Kennedy and Jim Nelson Black (p. 80), September 1994.
“When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.”
“We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.”
“The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.”
“I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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