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song writing trying
I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life. Amy Winehouse
song white zeppelins
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
song writing feel-better
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
song girlfriend writing
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.
song together stuff
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
song children men
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace? Alexander Pope
song snakes lasts
Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
song writing perfection
Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece. Alex Turner
song writing waiting
Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.
dad gold mine
My dad had the idea in 1963. As a promotion, it's been a gold mine ever since. Bobby Lee
dad favourite seen
I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie. Domhnall Gleeson
dad nose welcome whatever
Whatever I did would be something they'd already done. I mean, my Dad would welcome it if I got a nose ring. Leonardo DiCaprio
dad official signs until
It isn't official and until his dad signs it, we don't know. Robert Prunty
dad kids parenting
My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you? Robbie Coltraine
dad court my-dad
I'm always on the court with my dad. Venus Williams
dad ease my-dad
I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company. Samuel West
dad son bonus
Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it. Wayne Gretzky
dad newspapers
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers. Upton Sinclair
father paris skulls
Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to. Richard Leakey
father sick suffering
I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering. T. D. Jakes
father reading eyebrows
I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading. Harper Lee
father emotional broken
For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile. Iyanla Vanzant
father opportunity ideas
My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do. Hugh Jackman
father itself noble regards religion
Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble
father years waiting
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death. Rebecca West
father writing exercise
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film. Russell Baker
father accountants
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer. Umberto Eco