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Dorothy Fields

"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."

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"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."

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"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."

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"We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them."

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"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."

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"My word fly up my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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"The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother."
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"A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out."
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"Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression."
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"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."
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"A rhyme doesn't make a song."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it."
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"Love is the reason you were born."
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