"I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people."

-- Shawn Colvin

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“I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.”

Source : "Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on the future of the company: part one" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.
“I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?”
“Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?”

Source : "A Movement: The Daily Muse" by Kathryn Minshew, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.
“I've never really seen myself as one of the premier guys. I work hard and strive to be one of the best at my position, but never do I tell myself, "I'm one of the best guys." I'm just excited that Vita Coco invited me to be a part of their team with guys like Lynch and Jones. Any time you can be mentioned with guys like Jones and Lynch it's an honor.”
“You have to first believe in what you are, in what you can do, in what you say before you can make anybody believe in you.”
“Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”
“The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.”
“Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.”

Source : Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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