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A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before. ↗

— Sean Hayes

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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

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I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more. ↗

— Neil Young

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I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord. ↗

— Neil Young

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I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it. ↗

— Neil Young

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I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive. ↗

— Neil Young

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My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

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