![I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-learned-by-transcribing-songs-out-of-the-library-of-congress-collection-in-wash.jpg)
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I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.
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I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about? It's something that, songwriters just write songs. It's like an artist that paints. They paint what they feel. It's not, it's not about how many of these painting I'll sell it's just how they feel at the moment. And that's how I wrote "Stand By Me". Ben E. King
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Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job. Brett Ratner
jobs leader
My job is to throw passes and be a leader. Brett Favre
jobs comedy desks
I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job. Brandon T. Jackson
jobs perfect firsts
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jobs wheels wheel-of-time
My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.
jobs husband confused
If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused. Barbara Steele
jobs pay depth
The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes Art Linkletter
jobs best-job able
I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can. Benigno Aquino III
jobs actors employed
Your job as an actor is to stay employed. Benjamin Bratt
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. bell hooks
library want ifs
..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you. Elie Wiesel
library fear-not
Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. Doris Kearns Goodwin
library shade absence
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. Alberto Manguel
library exclusion preference
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
library growing association
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.
library world encyclopedia
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.
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library internet savvy
I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it. Drew Barrymore