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Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look at a premise… — Unknown Author
But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in… — Annie Proulx
If I'm writing... even a piece of a song... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line, a year, even… — M. Ward
I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like,… — Lucinda Williams
I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed… — Unknown Author
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the… — David Massengill
These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I… — Ani DiFranco
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up:… — Jorma Kaukonen
You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You… — Annie Lennox
There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind… — Merle Haggard
Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob… — Arlo Guthrie
I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There is no excuse… — Unknown Author
To mark the 0-year anniversary of 9/, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my… — Mark Sanchez
The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war. — Muhammad Ali
We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to… — Larry Holmes
I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well. — Deepika Padukone
They can't save enough without fundamentally altering the line, and for that, you have to go back to the voters. — Greg Nickels
Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation. — Unknown Author

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