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"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
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"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."
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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
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"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."
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"I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides."
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"Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out."
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"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."
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"This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them."
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"The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show."
Love
"Love is the reason you were born."
Love
"I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing."
Men
"A rhyme doesn't make a song."
Music
"A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out."
Music
"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."
Work
"In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it."
Time
"Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression."
Expression
"My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not."
Father
"There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers."
Time
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