‘There is some satisfaction to be got from setting things down on paper…’
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Quote Of The Week
‘All my life I’ve been doing things for other people, looking after them, doing things to please them but now I want to be my own person in my own right and I’m no longer afraid of doing what I want to do…’
Puli (Sathnam Sanghera’s sister) from The Boy With The TopKnot by Sathnam Sanghera
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‘I learned that when you stop concentrating on avoiding mistakes, you relax a bit, and consequently, you actually make fewer.’
Quote Of The Week
‘How far that little candle throws his beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.’
–The Merchant Of Venice – William Shakespeare
P.S The candle can also be a girl.
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‘Music really is the international language. All the places I’ve been to in the world are divided by language, idealogy, religion, etc, but music unites us all. It’s quite spectacular really, music’s extraordinary power to heal, to help, in a very real sense.’
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‘Songwriting credits are the number one reason why bands break up. Well, that and girlfriends.’
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‘It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.’
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‘Everybody needs a different climate in which to create, like for some people it’s the sun streaming through the blinds, or the Rocky Mountains, or a room sanitized for your own protection.’
LA Free Press 1975 Los Angelas Is Poetry from Tom Waits on Tom Waits. Interviews and Encounters, Edited by Paul Maher.
Quote Of The Week
‘Valerie’s impromptu staircase striptease has lost a little of its erotic spontaneity due to the three quarters of an hour it’s taken her to remove her thirty-five layers of thermals.’
The Mills & Boon Modern Girls’s Guide To Growing Old Disgracefully – Ada Adverse
Quote Of The Week
‘I was born with a happy nature and a happy heart. I was born with the gift of understanding people and loving them and I’ve never been unhappy. I’ve always seen the light at the end of the tunnel.’
