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"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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Personal Development
"The world system is employment."
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Personal Development
"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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Personal Development
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."
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"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."
Service
"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."
Mother
"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
Writer
"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
Theatre
"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."
Acting
"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes."
Comedy
"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface."
People
"One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there."
Music
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
Money
"A close-up on screen can say all a song can."
Music
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