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"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."
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"If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing."
"The world's most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife."
"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
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"All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing."
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"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."
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"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."
"A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy."
"I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it."
"We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it."
"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."
"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."
"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"
"In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it."
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