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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."
"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."
"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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