“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.”
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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 
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We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.
Dorothy Fields
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I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.
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No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
Dorothy Fields
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