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Marian McPartland Quotes

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

Marian McPartland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: March 21, 1918

Topics

Me Writing Nobody Trouble Anything

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

Everything Something Paid Been

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

Christian You Forget Conservative

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.

Good Children People Writing World

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

Reality Dangerous Kind Living Off

I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.

Simple Words Games Songs Puzzles

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Jean de la Bruyere

Health Legal Beyond Property Things

When I first moved to London, I used to pretend to be on the phone. I used to talk about stuff that was going on out loud. To my phone! I don't do that anymore!

Phone London Talk First Out Pretend

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.

Boy Special More Out Little Cereal

To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.

Work Good Style Effort Me Feel Good

The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.

Young Europe Longing Been

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Shadow Brainy Everything See Cast

Women could never beat men physically. So we have to be stronger in other ways.

Women Men Stronger Never Beat Ways

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