#push

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

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#belong #fall #fit #him #his

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting. ↗

— Adam Clayton

#age #boundaries #buy #creativity #early

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#characters #decisions #extreme #extremes #i

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#bit #bounce #go #i #me

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it. ↗

— Juan Cole

#did #flat #flat tax #income #individual

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#every #i #just #keep #kept

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.' ↗

— Bill Condon

#close #could #couple #five #get

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#ideas #music #new #new ideas #passion

My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be. ↗

— Fred Couples

#cheek #everyone #give #go #great