"Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo."

-- P. L. Travers

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.”

Source : "OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder on Hitmaking, Writer's Block and the Song That Got Away (Q&A)" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 06, 2013.
“I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.”
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.”
“I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored”
“He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.”
“You never know what's going to happen, so you just continue with your head down and never expect things to start being handed to you.”
“After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere”
“Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.”

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