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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds

ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
Daniel Ek

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
John Hodgman

An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.
Elinor Lipman

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.
Thomas John Barnardo

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
Alan Ball

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
Cheryl Strayed

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.
Paul Dano

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.
Wiz Khalifa

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.
Sigourney Weaver

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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