"I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs."

Time, Months, Songs

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"I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs."

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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."

Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian Composer

Time, Action, Singing, Song

"Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy."

Robert Crumb, American Artist

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

Joel Gretsch, American Actor

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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

Debbie Allen, American Actress

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Time, Luck, Now

"Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach."

Aaliyah, American Musician

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"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."

Mao Tse Tung, Chinese Leader

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"While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things."

Robert Urich, American Actor

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"Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children."

Bill Hicks, American Comedian

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"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner."

Insanity, State, Writing

"We've written something like 900 songs in all."

Music, Songs

"There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are."

Life, Fear, Alcohol, Drugs

"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."

Success, Successful, Ability

"The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high."

Danger, Song, Thinking, Writing

"If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today."

Time, Inspiration, Song, Today

"You have to be very brave in that first writing session."

First, Writing

"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."

Life, Worth

"A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by."

Being, Guitar, Purity

"I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year."

Architecture, College