"I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."

-- George Eliot

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“Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.”
“There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.”
“For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio tricks...maybe - remember, where I am with songwriting I have never been before - sparkly guitars and overdubs I've done (and will do again - see instrumental record in above answer)”
“Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.”
“Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.”
“To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.”

Source : Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”
“A good party is one that is designed to entertain and bond friends. The bad parties I've been to are the ones that are held to impress other people.”

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