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The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery. ↗

— Janet Erskine Stuart

#first #great #great thing #hard #hard thing

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#everything #instead #satisfying #spirit #tortures

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#always #basic #composer #decide #difficult

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#am #closest #did #i #i always

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#i #people #realize #role #understand

I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#asian #compared #especially #even #had

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#dark #honest #i #i write #low

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#i #i am #necessary #product #viewed

Nobody's free until everybody's free. ↗

— Fannie Lou Hamer

#free #nobody #until

For the last five years I've been in the production business. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#business #five #i #last #production