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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."

"I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening."

"If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway."

"It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word."
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"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."

"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."

"Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money."

"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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