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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 do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#catch #driving #i #i do #know

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#chooses #decathlon #i #much #think

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#far #field #great #i #i do

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#back #care #good #holds #how

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#hold #show #story #successful #will

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#create #doing #easier #hit #keep

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

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#give #happen #must #out #rhyming

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