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I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#anything #because #company #executive #fired

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#authorship #difficulties #find #honest #honest men

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#affected #all things #between #briefings #candidate

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#art #called #chandler #disciple #essays

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame. ↗

— Henry Constable

#blush #her #lady #lips #makes

The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today. ↗

— Tre Cool

#anything #beautiful #billie #head #how

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#beyond #clean #cold #dublin #fell

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#assume #california #culture #dig #equipment

Skating is now retro and hip. ↗

— Robin Cousins

#now #retro #skating

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship. ↗

— Francis Marion Crawford

#elements #everyone #friendship #make #make up