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"The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case."
"With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown."
"Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you."
"When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it."
Explore more quotes by Dorothy Fields
"My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not."
"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."
"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."
"In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it."
"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."
"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"
"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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