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"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."
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"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"

"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."

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

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

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

"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."
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"The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother."

"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."

"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."

"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 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."

"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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