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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#commissioned #countrymen #fountain #native #placed

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know. ↗

— Hugo Claus

#earth #feet #go #graves #guests

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#demands #depend #general #heavy #his

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#chosen #friends #himself #interested #milieu

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#audience #back #buy #dialogue #halts

Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#before #best #constantly #convince #decathlon

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#figure #gold #had #i #long

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#collapse #complete #fun #go #how

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out. ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#chill #chill out #even #go #how

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#assigned #critics #father #first #good