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Dorothy Fields

"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."

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"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."

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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

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"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

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"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."

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"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."

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"I never cared about money."

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"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."

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"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have."

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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

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"Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?"

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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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"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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"The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show."
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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 don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show."
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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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"A rhyme doesn't make a song."
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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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"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."
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"In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it."
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