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I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.

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Josephine Tey

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

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The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

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It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me. " It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.

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