"Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house."

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"Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house."

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"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building."

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"All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing."

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"You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within."

Bob Nelson, American Consultant

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"Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

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"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away."

George Carlin, American Comedian

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"Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building."

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"I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back."

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"What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on."

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"We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home."

Home

"She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King."

Thought

"On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off."

Music

"Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature."

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"Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high."

Love

"But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with."

Fear

"You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it."

Open

"You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process."

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"My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself."

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"The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop."

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