"For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Ali Liebegott

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“Wealth is the sinews of affairs.”
“Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.”
“The way that I write songs is pretty simple. I hear music first, much like you would when you're scoring a film. I usually hear a soundtrack in my head, and after I get that soundtrack, it tells me what it's about, what it feels like, what the emotion is, and the words come after.”

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“Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose only: how to give the very best account of my life that I can in the service of all.”
“I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.”
“Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed.”
“No one can change your beliefs for you, nor can they be forced upon you from without.”
“Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.”

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